If you watch just one video on mental illness in U.S. prisons…

make it this one. Wow. Please watch this excerpt of Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons. What a powerful and accurate documentary award-winning photographer Jenn Ackermann has given to us all. Please visit her site to find out more about the film and her other work at jennackermann.com.   more about “If you watch just [...]

“Group Working To Make Women’s Prisons More Women Friendly”

Please watch this video to see conversations with women at Tutwiler prison.  Special thanks to the Alabama Department of Corrections for making the conversations possible. The Commission on Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System met one on one with 10 inmates at Tutwiler Prison in Elmore County Monday. They came to the Wetumpka [...]

Department of Mental Health to hold public meetings in Birmingham

Examiner.com July 18, 2009 – Jennifer Horton On July 16th the Alabama Department of Mental Health (DMH) announced a series of local planning meetings to be held in August and September of 2009. The meetings will give families of children with mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, substance abuse issues, and intellectual disabilities the chance to [...]

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