SJ: I want to know if any institution down there let’s the inmates go to family funerals on the public’s dime? I don’t know if in the United States they do this, but I seriously hope that they don’t. My nephew is a correctional officer like me in the same institution, Kingston Penitentiary which is a men’s maximum security prison open since 1835; Well he spent the day taking an inmate to the North West Territories for a funeral on this past Saturday
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Duties include professional psychological testing, counseling groups, conducting sex offender programming therapy sessions, interviewing inmates for psychosexual evaluation and recommendation purposes, emergency evaluations and management, psycho diagnosis, case management, working with Case Managers and contracted professionals, psychological consultation to the institution.

COMPETENCIES INCLUDE:

Psychological theory, systems, and research; Intra and Interpersonal psychodynamics; Family systems; Motivation theory and principles;

events

• Feb 22, 2012 - 4th Annual National Prisoner’s Family Conference
• Feb 26, 2012 – APPA 2012 Winter Training Institute
• Apr 15, 2012 – NAAWS 2012 Training Conference
• Apr 22, 2012 – AJA's 31st Annual Training Conference and Jail Expo
• Jun 17, 2012 – MASCA 2012 Annual Conference
• Jul 20, 2012 – ACA - 142nd Congress of Correction

biz news

• Renowned Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse Researcher Joins Spectrum Health Systems
• Tuolumne County Selects BI Incorporated to Open Day Reporting Program for Adult Probationers
• NaphCare Inc., to continue partnership with North Carolina Department of Corrections
• NaphCare, Inc., announces new agreement with Worcester County, Massachusetts
• Smiths Detection launches smallest, most advanced handheld tri-mode threat detector
• Corizon Launches From Correctional Healthcare Merger
• Kissel Elected President of The National Alliance on Mental Illness Georgia Chapter
• NaphCare's Chief Medical Officer and Corporate Director of Psychiatry to Present at NCCHC's Spring Conference
• NaphCare's Bill Kissel - New Georgia State Chairperson of CIT
• NaphCare announces contract with Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Centric Group Announces Acquisition of Inmate Calling Solutions
• NaphCare announces contract with Florida Department of Juvenile Justice – Central Region
• NaphCare announces contract with Nueces County Department of Corrections

quote of the week

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson

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