Corrections

Dr. Johnson is a board certified general and forensic psychiatrist licensed in Maryland and the District of Columbia. Dr. Johnson is a graduate of Howard University, Howard University College of Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences residency program where he served as the Administrative Chief Resident during his final year, and the St. Elizabeths Hospital forensic psychiatry fellowship program. Dr. Johnson also holds the honor of being a Jeanne Spurlock American Psychiatric Association Congressional Fellow where he worked in the U.S.

Dr. Penn has performed numerous civil, criminal, and other independent psychiatric evaluations of children, adolescents, adults, and has been qualified and testified as an expert witness in state and federal courts. He has served as a consultant regarding correctional and non-correctional mental health care delivery and standards of care. He has presented on law and psychiatry issues, including seclusion and restraint, use of psychotropic medications, access to mental health care in correctional settings, suicide prevention, and prediction of future violence.

Ms. Judith Cox, MA, CCHP, has spent 35 years in correctional mental health services. She was a lead surveyor for NCCHC and served on the NCCHC standards revision task forces for the 1996 jail standards, the 1997 prison standards, and the 2008 mental health standards. Highlights of her work include clinical services in a state prison and the development of a national suicide prevention model. She is credited with many publications and now works as a consultant and expert witness