Mental illness in jails and prisons - Arboleda-Florez - 1999Mental Illness in Jails and Prisons," Cur- rent Opinion in Psychiatry 12:677-82.Arboleda-Florez, J. (1999). Mental illness in jails and prisons. Current Opinion in Psychiatry , 12, 677-682....
The large number of mental patients in prisons and jails and the challenges that they pose for proper services have become a problem that is practically intractable. With the concerns about the violence perpetrated by the mentally ill adding further to the problem, more research is required into ...
Today, nearly half the people in US jails, and more than a third of those in US prisons, have been diagnosed with a mental illness, not to mention the prevalence of cooccurring disorders (namely mental illness and addiction), which, by most accounts, increases the ...
remove him for his own safety.They knew it was wrong, but they took the man to jailbecause they had no other choice.I remember thinking to myself, “There has to be abetter way.I've been working on addressing the issue ofmental illness in Texas jails and prisons for more than25 ...
U.S. jails and prisons hold far more people with chronic and severe mental illness than do our mental hospitals. That's not an indictment of either correctional institutions or our judicial system; it's simply a statistical finding that occurs for a number of demographic reasons. Most prisons...
In South Korea, health services for individuals with mental illness began in the early 20th century; however, until the 1960s, involuntary institutionalization outside of hospitals was more common1,2. Psychiatrists introduced biological treatment for these patients and moved them from camps to ...
U.S. jails and prisons hold far more people with chronic and severe mental illness than do our mental hospitals. That's not an indictment of either correctional institutions or our judicial system; it's simply a statistical finding that occurs for a number of demographic reasons. Most prisons...
Despite the limitations the carceral environment may impose on mental wellness, mental healthcare is increasingly becoming a carceral endeavor. Over the course of the last several decades, prisons and jails have become the de facto mental healthcare prov
Increasingly, more and more mentally ill persons are being held in prisons instead of receiving the treatment they need in a correctional facility or psychiatric hospital. Currently, 500,000 mentally ill patients are being held in jails and prisons across America, compared to the 55,000 mentally ...
Lamb HR, Weinberger LE: Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review. Psychiatr Serv. 1998, 49: 483-492. CAS PubMed Google Scholar Yoon JH, Domino ME, Norton EC, Cuddeback GS, Morrissey JP: The impact of changes in psychiatric bed supply on jail use by persons...