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12/11/08--17:00: Michael Worden...Ghost Detective, an investigator of the living and the dead - Dec 12,2008 (chan 2937140)

Michael offers a unique perspective as an investigator of both the living and the dead! Michael is a police detective, having ten years of law enforcement experience. He has been actively investigating ghosts since 2000. Michael has a background in the sciences, having studied and worked in the field of exercise physiology and sports medicine for over ten years before pursuing a life long dream of being a police officer. He studied at Orange County Community College in Middletown, NY, and Manhattan College in NY, NY. He still maintains professional certifications from the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Council on Exercise. He teaches college part time as an adjunct instructor of movement science for Orange County Community College, a unit of the State University of New York system. Michael's career in Law Enforcement began with a year as a corrections officer for the New York State Department of Correctional Services. In 1999 he was hired by the City of Port Jervis, NY, Police Department. He is a graduate of the Rockland County Police Academy and served as a patrolman from 1999 to 2005. In 2006 he was promoted to the rank of detective. As detective Michael has investigated numerous criminal offenses, including sex crimes, property crimes (theft, burglarly), crimes against a person (such as assault, robbery) and other offenses. He has conducted many death investigations in cases where someone died unattended, under susicious circumstances, accidentally and by suicide. He has ten years of experience in interviewing witnesses, victims, and suspects. His investigative skills and experience are unique in the field of paranormal research. His background in the sciences includes


03/14/09--12:00: The Investigation of Joe Arpaio and MCSO - Mar 14,2009 (chan 2937140)

We will discuss the recently opened investigation by the United States Justice Department into the civil rights violations against Hispanics both legal and illegal by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. We will also discuss conditions of the Maricopa County Jail and the accreditation loss of the Counties Correctional Health Services.


05/04/09--15:30: The Children’s Center at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility - May 04,2009 (chan 2937140)

Today at 6:30 p.m., Bobby Blanchard, the Director of The Children’s Center at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility will be on Family Life Behind Bars Radio. Just an hour north of New York City, the maximum security women’s prison where the center is located, is home to mothers looking to maintain an active role in their children’s lives. Founded over 25 years ago, The Children’s Center offers programs and services that helps the mother strengthen her role as a parent, improve family ties, and support and nurture the children. The center is funded by an agency of Catholic Charities Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. Blanchard, who has worked at the facility for 15 years and has been the director for four, will talk about the center, her experience working with both the mothers and children in the program, as well as what can be done to repair relationships that have been strained by separation.


08/31/09--18:30: $220 Million Grants by the Department of Labor - Sep 01,2009 (chan 2937140)

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), Employment & Training Administration intends to fund 45-65 grants ranging from approximately $2 to $5 million. The DOL announces the availability of approximately $220 million in grant funds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (the Recovery Act) for projects that provide training and placement services to help workers pursue careers in Health care and other high growth and emerging industry sectors.

Department of Labor | employment training | government grants | recovery act | stimulus dollars




09/28/09--13:00: Viki Kind interviews Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, CCHP, "Healthcare Behind Bars." - Sep 28,2009 (chan 2937140)

Viki Kind interviews Lorry Schoenly, PhD, RN, CCHP, "Healthcare Behind Bars." Dr. Lorry Schoenly is Clinical Education Manager for one of the largest companies providing healthcare services in jails and prisons across the country. She is a registered nurse who advocates for professional nursing practice in corrections and hosts a blog site www.correctionalnurse.net . She has authored a variety of articles about nursing in jails and prisons and is a frequent speaker on correctional nursing topics at conferences and other venues. Dr. Schoenly is also a freelance writer, editor, and instructional designer - providing consultation services on issues regarding correctional healthcare. The views, opinions and information she expresses here are her own. They are not designed to represent those of her employer or any professional or educational affiliation. Follow her on twitter at www.twitter.com/lorryschoenly. Friend her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lorryschoenly Catch her full bio on www.linkedin.com/in/lorryschoenly Blogging @ www.correctionalnurse.net


02/18/10--11:00: Is Prison Nursing for Me? - Feb 18,2010 (chan 2937140)

Margaret M. Collatt, BSN, RN, CCHP-A/RN, joins Lorry to talk about correctional nursing in the prison setting - What it takes to be a Correctional Nurse. Margaret has over 26 years of correctional healthcare experience and was the Health Services Manager at the Oregon State Penitentiary for 8 1/2 years. She has developed and instructed health related classes for the correctional setting for many years. She continues to write health related programs and has been active in developing the correctional nurse as a recognized specialty.


03/19/10--08:30: ANA Correctional Nursing Standards - Mar 19,2010 (chan 2937140)

Lorry talks with Catherine Knox, MS, RN,CCHP-RN, about the latest revision of the Scope and Standards for Corrections Nursing. Catherine has 22 years of correctional nursing experience in a variety of settings. She was the statewide Director of Nursing for the Washington Department of Corrections from 2004 until fall of 2008 when she joined the California Prison Health Care Services as Assistant Statewide Chief Nursing Executive.


03/22/10--11:00: Updates Conference Brief: Inmate Dementia - Mar 22,2010 (chan 2937140)

John Wilson, PhD, Clinical Operations Specialist for MHM Correctional Services, Vienna, VA will talk about his session on "Addressing the Rising Prevalence of Dementia in Inmate Population" set for Sunday, April 25, 1pm at the Updates in Correctional Health Care Conference in Nashville.


04/14/10--07:00: Talking about Jail Nursing - Apr 14,2010 (chan 2937140)

Becky Pinney, MSN, RN joins Lorry to provide an insider look at jail nursing. Becky is currently President, Metropolitan Corrections Systems for Prison Health Services with multi-facility responsibility for PHS sites and regions. In her current position, she is responsible for the oversight and direction to facility-based staff for the Rikers Island contracts and other DOC contracts. Becky has over 15 years of correctional healthcare experience ranging from Director of Nursing for the Virginia Department of Corrections at the Powhatan Correctional Center to her current corporate role with PHS.


06/02/10--11:00: Double Down on TB in Jails and Prisons - Jun 02,2010 (chan 2937140)

Janice B Hill, RN, MPH, is a correctional nurse leader with nearly 3 decades of experience with the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office in Largo, FL. She is an active nurse educator frequently presenting on juvenile standards for the National Commission on Correctional Health Care. She was instrumental in the development of Florida's Model Jail Standards Medical Inspector's Course. In addition, she is on faculty with the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Tuberculosis & Refuge Health and a Southeastern Public Safety Institute Instructor on Bloodborne Pathogens & other Communicable Diseases. In this episode she will be talking to Lorry about the state of the corrections system regarding Tuberculosis (TB).


06/06/10--15:00: The Entrepreneur Xchange- Spotlight on Jordan's Quest - Jun 06,2010 (chan 2937140)

Ms. Chanie M. Jordan, M.Ed., founder of Jordan's Quest, Inc., has worked with parents for 30 years. Jordan's Quest, Inc. began September 1, 2004, in Mechanicsville, Virginia. We are dedicated to providing parenting classes, resources, and literacy programs to parents and caregivers who want to better understand their children and for court mandated parents who must take classes. They are able to meet with parents and/or caregivers in their home or workplace because they know how important it is for parents to work and are unable to attend parenting sessions because of a lack of transportation or work schedules. We have experience working with: Individuals experiencing homelessness Department of Social Services (CPS, FAPT, Child Support Enforcement, Family Stabilization) Head Start Correctional Centers Child Care Centers Churches Public School Systems Public Libraries


06/17/10--11:00: Correctional Nursing Trailblazer - Jun 17,2010 (chan 2937140)

Lorry chats with Jackie Moore, PhD, RN, CCHP-A, CCHP-RN about the beginnings of organized correctional healthcare - she was there at the start! Dr. Moore has over 3 decades of nursing experience primarily in corrections and started the first correctional healthcare company providing services to facilities in the northeast. She writes, speaks and consults regularly about correctional health care issues.


06/25/10--04:00: Department of Homeless Services - Jun 25,2010 (chan 2937140)

What D.H.S.is not doing to help the Homeless


07/01/10--12:00: Exploring Juvenile Correctional Nursing - Jul 01,2010 (chan 2937140)

A chat with Ellyn Presley, RN, CCHP,Public Health Nurse at Prince William County Juvenile Detention Center. Ellyn has worked in Juvenile Corrections for almost 20 years and is very active in professional correctional health care activities.


08/04/10--09:00: PODCAST Episode #1: Amazon Web Services and Appian Accredited with ATO by Department of Ed. - Aug 04,2010 (chan 2937140)

Following is the first episode Amazon Web Services and Appian recently announced that they have received an Authority to Operate (ATO) from the U.S. Department of Education for the Department’s Appian Anywhere application, hosted by Amazon Web Services. Following is an exclusive podcast with Terry Wise, Director of Business Development for Amazon Web Services; Samir Gulati, VP of Marketing, Appian Corporation; and Myles Weber, VP of Product Services, Appian Corporation, on this exciting news.


09/22/10--08:00: John Howard Association of Illinios - Sep 22,2010 (chan 2937140)

Todays special guest: Mr. Robert Manor who serves as a Prison & Jail monitor for the John Howard Association of Illinois; a non-partisan organization working for Prison Reform Since 1901. John Howard Association of Illinois (JHA) provides critical and independent oversight of the state’s prisons, jails, and juvenile correctional facilities. We will discuss Prison Inspections, Rehabilitation Programs and Services, Healthcare and Massive overcrowding inside the Illinois Department of Corrections. Please call in or post chartroom questions. This show is dedicated to everyone whose lives have been impacted by the Prison industrial complex. http://www.thejha.org (JHA) Tel: (312)503-6306


10/13/10--08:00: Confronting Injustice and A Broken Criminal Justice System - Oct 13,2010 (chan 2937140)

Today we will talking about the North Carolina SBI Crime Lab scandal with Elizabeth Renter. Elizabeth Renter is a criminal justice blogger for Change.org and contributes to Race-talk.org. Her article "How the Broken Public Defense System Exacerbates Racial Disparities" was featured recently on the Huffington Post and among other things states, "Under the preface of being "tough on crime" we have continued to pour money into the prison systems, building more and more institutions while spending less and less to help people defend themselves against the criminal accusations that threaten to send them there." Read more Elizabeth Renter is a writer who studied criminal justice at Bellevue University in her home state of Nebraska. She’s worked in case management for the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and as a probation/parole officer in North Carolina.


10/28/10--13:30: How the Missouri Department of Youth Services handles young offenders - Oct 28,2010 (chan 2937140)

The Missouri Department of Youth Services has received high marks for its treatment and rehabilitation of young offenders. We will speak to the Director, Tim Decker and Carlos, who is currently in the system to hear firsthand how Missouri is treating our kids.


12/21/10--15:00: Author Veronica Davis with OP2 Talk Host Bill Crespo - Dec 21,2010 (chan 2937140)

Author/Historian Veronica A. Davis earned her undergraduate degree from Hampton University and a Masters of Library Science from the University of Pittsburgh. She is active in number of professional organizations, among them the Little England Chapel Foundation, where she serves as President of the Executive Board. She is the founder of the Hampton Literary Society and a former president of the Maggie Lena Walker Historical Foundation. Ms. Davis is also the founder of the National Foundation of Historic Cemeteries, where is leading the restoration of 7 historic African American Cemeteries working in cooperation with the City of Richmond's Sheriff's Department, the Department of Parks and Recreation, several community churches, organizations and businesses including Bank of America. Her background includes service as a former school librarian, childrenss librarian, acquisitions librarian, reference librarian. She is most notable as the founder and editor of the Virginia Correctional Librarian Newsletter, a publication that she found while working as a school librarian at the Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Facility in Goochland, Virginia. Here Ms. Davis achieved international recognition for her role in creating a state-­-of-­-the-­-art educational facility for in-­-mates. It may seem obvious to some to create an educational library for a school setting, but Ms. Davis thought outside of the box by seeing her patrons as students and not as in-­-mates. National Business Coach, Bill Crespo will answer questions and interview guests on how to devloping new skills to increase revenue, improve time management, develop new habits that can take us to our next level. Tune in weekly.


03/17/11--07:00: Introducing Patricia Voermans, New NCCHC Board Member - Mar 17,2011 (chan 2937140)

Patricia Voermans, RN, CCHP-RN, represents the American Nurses Association on the NCCHC Board, being newly appointed in 2010. Voermans is a health services consultant primarily doing quality improvement and other special projects, as well as a nurse practitioner for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. Pat is also is a lead accreditation surveyor for NCCHC.


04/07/11--10:30: IL Dept Corrections Adult Ed Rep Christine Boyd & Malcolm Young, Professor, Northwestern Univ - Apr 07,2011 (chan 2937140)

AT 12:30pm, Illinois Department of Corrections Administrator for the Office of Adult Education and Vocational Services, Christine Boyd will discuss Illinois prison programs supporting mother-child bonding for female inmates, and the benefits in Adult Education for inmates as a fundamental step towards their social reintegration, the further need for community colleges to build partnerships with correctional institutions for the purpose of adding to society efforts toward rehabilitating those who are incarcerated. How society will benefit. And if educating people who are in prison is a good idea, and are community colleges best equipped to do the job. At 1:30pm, Mr. Malcolm C. Young, Criminologist, adjunct professor in Northwestern Universitys Bluhm Legal Clinic, discusses the report Model for Cutting Crime and Costs in Illinois.


04/28/11--08:00: Critical Thinking in Correctional Nursing Practice - Apr 28,2011 (chan 2937140)

Gene Lincoln, MS, RN, CCHP, Clinical Education Manager and Tre OBrien, BSN, RN, CCHP-RN, Clinical Education Specialist for Correctional Medical Services talk about his upcoming session at the May 2011 NCCHC Updates Conference in Phoenix. The presentation follows the development and implementation of a program in critical thinking skills for frontline nursing staff.


04/29/11--12:00: Multicultural Awareness in Correctional Mental Health - Apr 29,2011 (chan 2937140)

Mark Fleming, PhD, Director of Behavioral Health Services for Correctional Medical Services, talks about his upcoming presentation at the May 2011 NCCHC Updates Conference. The workshop is designed to help correctional mental health staff integrate cultural markers such as race, gender identity and sexual identity into successful strategies for better delivery of mental health services.


05/26/11--13:00: Critical Thinking in Correctional Nursing Practice - May 26,2011 (chan 2937140)

Lorry interviews Tre’ O’Brien, BSN, RN, CCHP-RN about her work in developing critical thinking skills for correctional nurses. Tre has been a registered nurse for over 23 years with experience in nursing including acute care, outpatient services and management. She has worked in correctional nursing for the past 16 years and currently practices as a clinical education specialist.


08/27/11--17:00: Thoughts on Correctional Nursing from the ACA Exhibit Hall - Aug 28,2011 (chan 2937140)

Lorry roams the Exhibit Hall at the 2011 American Correctional Association Conference in Orlando tracking down correctional nurses. They share advise for nurses new to the specialty.


09/20/11--12:00: The Pharmaceutical Pipeline - Sep 20,2011 (chan 2937140)

Erik Hamel, PharmD, Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Pharmacy Services UMass, Shrewsbury, MA talks about formulary considerations in the correctional health setting. He presents this topic at the 2011 National Conference on Correctional Health Care, October 15-19 in Baltimore, MD.


10/04/11--09:00: Are Correctional Nurses Outcasts? - Oct 04,2011 (chan 2937140)

Lorry chats with Kevin Connor, BSN, RN, CCHP, President of the California-Nevada Chapter of the American Correctional Health Services Association about the image of correctional nursing. Keven is Communicable Diseases Coordinator for the San Bernadino Sheriffs Department and works out of the West Valley Detention Center in Ranco Cucamonga, CA. The CA-NV ACHSA website is http://statepen.org and the national ACHSA website is http://achsa.org


10/04/11--18:00: The Future of Nursing - Oct 05,2011 (chan 2937140)

Mary Muse, MS, RN, CCHP-A, CCHP-RN, Chief Nursing Officer for the Wisconsin Department of Corrections and member of the CCHP Board of Directors talks about the Institute of Medicine Report on the Future of Nursing and implications for correctional nurses. This is the topic of her Fall 2011 NCCHC National Conference Session.

Mary Muse | IOM | Correctional Nursing | NCCHC | Future of Nursing




12/09/11--08:00: 2011 Facility of the Year - Lehigh County Prison - Dec 09,2011 (chan 2937140)

Nicole Heffner, BSN, RN, CCHP, Health Services Administrator at Lehigh County Prison discusses 25 years of NCCHC accreditation and how they keep a well-running system of healthcare.

NCCHC | Lehigh County Prison | Correctional Health Care | National Commission on Correctional Health Care | Nicole Heffner




01/05/12--21:00: The Lumley Vampire Newsletter - Jan 06,2012 (chan 2937140)

The Lumley Vampire Underground Newsletter radio show. Information about the officers, unions and staff of the Arizona Department of Corrections. BOYCOTT AZCPOA and support for the correctional FOP. News and updates about Arizona state prison units. Updates about Private Prisons. Rants and Raves

Lumley Vampire | ADOC | DOC | State Prison | Private Prisons