Mentally ill offenders in prison.Examines the effect of keeping mentally ill offenders in prison. Profile of mentally ill offenders; Overview of the treatment received by the offenders; Interventions made by the general practitioner.EBSCO_AspBritish Medical Journal...
National Survey of Mental Health Services for Mentally Ill Offenders in PrisonBewley, Marshall Tribble
MENTALLY DISORDERED OFFENDERS IN PRISON: A TALE OF NEGLECT? The Prison Service's increased emphasis on security and control has generated many obstacles for the effective delivery of psychiatric care to mentally disordered prisoners. Such prisoners do not have the necessary mental strength or cop......
A growing number of people with mental illness are being held in US prisons, according to a recent report by the US Department of Justice.The report is the first in-depth national study of mental illness in US prisons. It reported a total of 283800 prison inmates with some form of mental...
In 1998, 238,000 mentally ill offenders were incarcerated in the prisons and jails. State prison inmates with a mental condition were more likely to be incarcerated for violent offenses than other inmates for being under the influence of alcohol or drugs at the time of the offense. Some of ...
The proposed program will be a federal community corrections center for mentally ill offenders, in which psychological services are provided. Many of the offenders in corrections centers who come directly from an institution have been institutionalized. They expect their families to be the same, ...
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The benefits of social support for mentally ill offenders: prison-to-community transitions. Social support, provided both in and after release from prison, was associated with higher quality of life after release from prison. Social support provid... JE Jacoby,B Kozie-Peak - 《Behavioral Sciences...
Evaluates the proportion of mentally disordered offenders in Great Britain. Reference to studies measuring the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in prison populations; Management of mentally disordered prison; Establishment of psychiatric prisons and creation of consultant posts in forensic psychiatry; Importa...
"In America today, the fastest-growing population in prison is not Blacks, Hispanics, or toothless methamphetamine addicts," Thompson writes in his book. "It is the mentally ill. We are criminalizing our brothers and our sisters, our neighbors and our friends at an alarming an...