Tag: Mental Health
Lawmakers decide how to spend pot tax cash; RMGO knows how...
Notes from the final fugue, a.k.a. the 115th day of the 2014 legislative session
Lawmaker will seek to abolish solitary confinement for mentally ill prisoners
State Sen. Jessie Ulibarri, D-Adams County, is sponsoring a bill to find alternatives to the use of so-called administrative segregation for prisoners who have been diagnosed with one of a wide array of serious psychological disorders.
Subtypes of Mental Disorders Skyrocket With Release of Newest Diagnostic Manual
At a whopping 947 pages, the DSM is heavier than ever before, and in more ways than one.
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and...
Hickenlooper Appoints New Director to Department of Corrections
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday appointed Wisconsin’s former prisons chief, Rick Raemisch, as the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections. For his part, Raemisch described himself in a prepared statement as “a strong law and order individual, but I also believe that people can change.”
Bill curtailing solitary confinement faces changes to reduce cost
Amendments to strip off an expected fiscal note are on the way for a bill sponsors say would protect those with mental illnesses and developmental disabilities from being placed in solitary confinement while incarcerated.
Legislators take aim at solitary confinement
A bill to reduce the numbers of mentally ill and developmentally disabled prisoners in solitary confinement was introduced Monday by Sen. Morgan Carroll, D-Aurora, and Rep. Claire Levy, D-Boulder.
Undaunted, Romanoff campaign plows into election summer season
COLORADO SPRINGS-- U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff, Colorado’s former speaker of the house, a popular political figure by almost any measure, won the Democratic Party county assemblies by 16 points last month and polls well against GOP challengers Ken Buck, Tom Wiens and Jane Norton. Yet his primary campaign against appointed Senator Michael Bennet has floundered, leading observers to continue to ask why he's running and to search his campaign literature, his speeches and his face for motive.
Bilingual Mental Health Providers Spread Thin
The best therapists use the cultural background of their patients as a framework for diagnosis and treatment. No one knows more about Latino cultures...
Immigrants Looking for American Dream Find Depression and Anxiety
The backlash against immigration had led to a significant increase in the number of Spanish speakers seeking mental health treatment. But providers say there...
Rural Communities Look to Recognize, Battle Elderly Suicide – Part 2...
When the group updating Colorado's statewide suicide prevention plan held an information-gathering session in Cortez recently, participants had plenty to talk about.
"A couple in...