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Auditors find gaps in prison behavioral‑health care; committee advances correctional health amendments
Summary
Legislative auditors presented 20 recommendations after finding inconsistent suicide observation, missed follow‑up care and medication management gaps in prison psychiatric units; the committee passed a correctional health amendments bill to implement standards and system changes.
The Legislative Auditor General presented two audits of correctional behavioral‑health services identifying systemic problems in psychiatric infirmaries and custody oversight.
Auditors said staff inconsistently applied observation policies for suicidal inmates, documented multiple instances where inmates classified as acutely suicidal were placed on lower levels of observation contrary to policy, and found 26 cases in which such classification led to attempts between checks. They also found incomplete medication management (20% of sampled charts), insufficient follow‑up (40% lacked…
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