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Housing Decisions Impact Inmate Mental Health – Here’s How to Make a Difference
With correctional facilities lacking the staff, resources, & infrastructure needed to make safe housing decisions, providing inmates with the environment they need can be difficult. Read how the Northpointe Suite’s classification management module can help.
Classification: Reducing Harm and Litigation
Classification Management is proven to prevent litigation exposure by ensuring your correctional facility is adequately meeting inmates’ needs. Learn more about the Northpointe Suite’s classification management tools designed to mitigate risk and protect your facility.
Prioritizing Resources to Improve Mental Health for Inmates
As we close out another mental health month, we want to shed some light on the progress being made across the United States regarding the mental health of inmates at correctional facilities and that of the officers and staff.
Stay Healthier with Technology
If COVID has taught us anything, it’s that we’re far more capable, adaptable, and resilient than we ever imagined. Moving forward, what we’ve also learned is that we can keep everyone in the facility safer and healthier by thinking a little differently about our technology.
Addressing the Mental Health Crisis, One Person at a Time
For most justice practitioners, finding ways to help justice-involved people with mental health issues is a daily struggle. The Northpointe Suite can help.
Youth, Mental Health, and What Works
Research suggests between two-thirds and three-fourths of youth in juvenile detention facilities have one or more mental health and/or substance abuse issues. What are juvenile facilities and their jurisdictions doing to help get youth the services they need?
Minimize Your Litigation Exposure with Classification
In your correctional facility, doing the right thing to protect inmates and doing the prudent thing to protect your jail are the same: proper Classification.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health Screenings
Since your jail is most likely the largest mental health care provider in your community, it’s imperative that you understand the needs of those who are in your custody.
Valid IDs and Public Safety: What You Need to Know
Agencies like yours have a critical role in the safety of your entire community and making a valid identification of every individual who walks through your door can be essential to public safety.
