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An estimated 7,600 students paid a total of $114 million for phony nursing degrees from the South Florida schools and other suspect programs between 2016 and 2021.
People with mental illnesses are over-represented in jail and prison populations in the United States relative to the general population. [1][2][3] There are three times as many mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals in the United States. [1] Mentally ill people are subjected to solitary confinement at disproportionate rates ...
Prisons are not intended to be used as nursing homes, hospice or long-term care facilities for the aging prison population. [65] Despite this, prison hospice does exist. [66] [67] In Canada, individuals 50 years of age and older in federal custody account for 25% of the federal prison population. [65]
The United States incarcerates more of its youth than any other country in the world, through the juvenile courts and the adult criminal justice system, which reflects the larger trends in incarceration practices in the United States. In 2010, approximately 70,800 juveniles were incarcerated in youth detention facilities alone. [1]
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By 2035, Florida will face a shortage of 60,000 nurses, a sharp increase from the deficit of 17,000 reported in 2019. These problems come at a time when 70% of hospitals in the state are already ...
Nursing home residents' rights are the legal and moral rights of the residents of a nursing home. [1] Legislation exists in various jurisdictions to protect such rights. An early example of a statute protecting such rights is Florida statute 400.022, enacted in 1980, and commonly known as the Residents' Rights Act.
Spanish colonizers in Florida also brought their own ideas of confinement, and Spanish soldiers in St. Augustine, Florida, built the first substantial prison in North America in 1570. [19] Some of the first structures built in English-settled America were jails, and by the 18th century, every English-speaking North American county had a jail.