NACDL - Using Psychiatric Advance Directives & Neuroscience in the Criminal Legal System [Engage & Exchange]

Using Psychiatric Advance Directives & Neuroscience in the Criminal Legal System [Engage & Exchange]

Laurie Hallmark discusses how to manage a client through the system using psychiatric advanced directives to aid the courts and other court and police personnel during the trial and placement process. Jacqueline Hall discusses the interface of DNA, neuroscience, and addiction with the criminal legal system. Elizabeth Blackwood hosts the discussion.

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Presented by Laurie Hallmark, California Mental Health Service Act Innovation Project, Psychiatric Advance Directives Consultant; Jacqueline Hall, Chief Operating Officer, Wired for Addiction; Elizabeth Blackwood, Counsel & Director of First Step Act Resource Center, NACDL

The State of Prison & Jail Communication Systems online interactive map provides detailed insights into prison and jail communications systems across the United States, with a special emphasis on lawyers’ ability to communicate with their clients confidentially.

“How to Navigate the Federal Prison System” manual is intended to assist attorneys and the general public in navigating the often-confusing federal incarceration machine. The manual covers housing, work, medical issues, programming, visitation, communications with family and counsel, and more from the pretrial, presentencing, and sentencing phases to post-sentencing, incarceration, and re-entry and release.

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