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New Art Therapy Tablet Application Helps Incarcerated Individuals Regulate Emotions and Behaviors, Improving Mental Health
Applications that address mental health support individuals in reducing anxiety, enhancing relationships, and learning better communication skills
FALLS CHURCH, VA / ACCESSWIRE / February 9, 2021 / GTL, a trusted partner that connects those affected by incarceration with the resources and support necessary to achieve success, today announced that it has partnered with Hayes Art Therapy to provide new content on GTL tablets.
The Art Therapy app will teach incarcerated individuals how to use different art materials, such as drawings and collages, to help regulate their emotions and behaviors. By doing so, they can reduce their anxiety, enhance their relationships by learning better communication skills, and better handle frustration, disappointment, anger, and other feelings.
The Mississippi Department of Corrections decided a couple of years ago that its employees just needed to meditate some to lower the stress of their job. To put them in the mood, MDOC bought a truckload of massage chairs, Himalayan salt lamps and other accoutrements.
If State Auditor Shad Whiteâs report on the chronically troubled agency is correct, former Corrections Commissioner Pelicia Hall did a lot of her meditating over how to rip off the taxpayers.
Last week, White released his second bombshell of the year when he said that under Hallâs leadership, MDOC misspent millions of dollars, including over $100,000 that benefited Hall personally.
Dec 18, 2020 The Mississippi State Parole Board is defending one of its members, a Meridian resident, after a state auditorâs report said she was reimbursed more than $47,000 for travel expenses that are not meant to be reimbursable.
The Office of the State Auditor said in a report released on Thursday that Mississippi Parole Board member Betty Lou Jones was reimbursed $47,321 for travel expenses that are not reimbursable.
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This finding is part of a larger report which documents widespread misspending by the Mississippi Department of Corrections from July 1, 2017 to Dec. 31, 2019.Â
Logan Reeves, a spokesperson for the auditor s office, said the report states that there are audit findings of illegal expenditures that made their way to Jones, but that does not mean that those expenditures are criminal.
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In this Sept. 17, 2018 Associated Press file photo, Pelicia Hall, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner speaks before a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee Fiscal Year 2020 hearing in Jackson, Miss.Â
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By Brittany Brown  Mississippi Today Dec 18, 2020
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In this Sept. 17, 2018 Associated Press file photo, Pelicia Hall, Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner speaks before a meeting of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee Fiscal Year 2020 hearing in Jackson, Miss. Rogelio V. Solis Former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Pelicia Hall and her administration mishandled thousands of dollars in public funds, according to a report the state auditorâs office released on Thursday.