Thursday, September 9, 2010

Counselors monitoring prison officers with PTSD

CANON CITY, Colo. John Brownfield Jr. became a corrections officer following deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq.

Brownfield was later charged with accepting bribes from inmates seeking tobacco at the U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, Colo. He told the judge that when he came home, he suffered insomnia and nightmares, drank more heavily, was quick to anger, "reckless with everything" in his life.

U.S. District Judge John Kane suspected post-traumatic stress disorder.  Read More...

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