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Application and Use of Restraints in Custody: Reducing the Risk [Videoconference Held April 19, 2000]
      This presentation will increase the user's understanding of the risks associated with the use of restraints, tools to reduce risk, and the proper w
    Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, July 2002
      Contents of these proceedings include:
    Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting, February 2004
      Contents of these proceedings include: meeting highlights; Domestic Preparedness and the Impact on Large Jails by Sue Menser; meeting participants
    Locking Up H1N1
      This 3-hour program, originally broadcast December 9, 2009, and hosted by the National Institute of Corrections, will address the issue of correcti
    Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Medical Health Care for Sexual Assault Victims in a Confinement Setting Course
      Welcome to the National Institute of Corrections’ Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) Medical Health Care for Sexual Assault Victims in a Confinemen
    Traumatic Brain Injury in the Criminal Justice Population [Webinar]
      “This webinar discusses the prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and its implications for the criminal justice system.
    Civil Liability for Inadequate Prisoner Medical Care: Eye and Vision Related
      "Jails and prisons are constitutionally mandated to provide adequate medical care to those in their care, since prisoners and detainees cannot seek
    "Seek, Test, Treat and Retain" For Hepatitis C in the United States Criminal Justice System
      The potential benefits and challenges of applying “seek, test, treat and retain” (STTR) model of care to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in the US criminal
    Hepatitis C in Corrections: Innovations in Treatment and Management of a Public Health Challenge [Internet Broadcast]
      Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is the most common blood-borne infection in the United States, with approximately three million persons living wi
    Proceedings of the Large Jail Network Meeting: September 2017
      Presentations: “Mental Health Inmate Management-Texas Initiative” (1) “Jails and the Sandra Bland Act” by Dennis D.


      Entitled to Treatment: Medical Care for Transgender Adolescents in the Juvenile Justice System (2016)
      Transgender individuals are those whose “gender identity” - their personal sense of being male or female - does not match the sex they were assigne
    Noxalone saves lives
    NIC Launches E-Course for Naloxone Administration
      The National Institute of Corrections recently launched Naloxone Administration, a new e-course that describes how to identify the potential risks and hazards of exposure to opioids and actions that correctional staff can take to minimize risk to engaging in life saving methods. Step-by-step instructions and scenarios outline the use and application of the opioid antagonist Naloxone. The training prescribed in this e-course has the potential to save lives. Return to top

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