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| New Study Will Help Get Correctional Officers The Mental Health Services They Need |
| By thefix.com- David Konow |
| Published: 06/21/2017 |
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A new study is focusing on the mental troubles that affect people that work in prisons, and what can be done to help prison workers who can no longer cope. According to USA Today, a number of correctional officers have participated in a study in California, which has one of the biggest prison systems in the United States, to see where much-needed mental health services can be provided. There are about 26,000 correctional officers working in California, and there is a high suicide rate among them. An official for the California Correctional Peace Officers Association said, “We do a decent job with saying that ‘this system messes with the incarcerated, this system impacts their lives,’ but what we don’t say is, ‘what’s the impact that this job is having on the correctional officers?’” Read More. |
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