Entries tagged with “Craigen Armstrong”
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,Dec 21, 2023
Former Death Row Prisoner Craigen Armstrong Pioneers “Vital” Mental Illness Treatment Program in L.A. Jail
A new story by the L.A. Times highlights former California death row prisoner Craigen Armstrong’s instrumental role in building a peer-prisoner mental health treatment program in the Los Angeles Twin Towers Correctional Facility, an effort which has helped hundreds of prisoners with severe mental illness. While awaiting retrial, Mr. Armstrong established the “mental health assistant” role to support and treat fellow prisoners, and has developed training materials for jails and prisons…