Ms. Laura Watson is an LCSW who serves as the Clinical Supervisor over a 240-bed subacute, mental health unit in a medium security men's prison. She oversees all aspects of mental health services within the unit including the coordination of care and supervision of staff. She facilitates the specialized mental health training for the correctional officers who are selected to work in this unit. Her work on quality assurance and compliance assisted in ending an almost 40-year-old class action lawsuit. Laura has over seventeen years of experience in corrections with fifteen of those years being in adult corrections and two years in juvenile corrections. She graduated with her master's degree in Clinical Social Work from Walla Walla College.