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There are three times as many mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals in the United States. [1] Mentally ill people are subjected to solitary confinement at disproportionate rates compared to the general prison population.
30 maj 2017 · Individuals with mental illness and substance use disorders are significantly overrepresented in American jails and prisons, a development that has attracted the concern of clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and corrections personnel.
This systematic review identifies studies that assess the prevalence of mental illnesses in U.S. state prisons, in order to develop a broader picture of prison prevalence and identify methodological challenges to obtaining accurate and consistent estimates.
Despite court mandates, there is a significant lack of access to adequate mental health care in incarcerated settings. About three in five people (63%) with a history of mental illness do not receive mental health treatment while incarcerated in state and federal prisons.
1 kwi 1998 · Mental health professionals have become increasingly concerned about the number of persons with mental illness in jails and prisons. This issue is a relatively recent one. Reports of large numbers of mentally ill persons in American jails and prisons began appearing in the 1970s (1–3).
1 paź 2016 · It is estimated that more than two million arrests in the United States each year involve people with serious mental illness, and on any given day in the United States, there are approximately 550,000 people with serious mental illness in our jails and prisons.
15 paź 2014 · This systematic review was conducted to develop a broader picture of mental illness prevalence in U.S. state prisons and to identify methodological challenges to obtaining accurate and consistent estimates.
