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From Prisons to Hospitals -- and Back: The Criminalization of Mental Illness
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From Prisons to Hospitals -- and Back: The Criminalization of Mental Illness
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Campaign for an Effective Crime Policy (Washington, DC)
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Published 2000.
4 pages.
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Co-occurring disorders
(Offender Services)
Co-occurring disorders
(Special Offenders)
Institution alternatives
(Justice System)
Jails
(Offender Management)
Mentally ill
(Special Offenders)
Prisons
(Offender Management)
Psychiatric services
(Offender Services)
In the late 1990's, more mentally ill individuals are in jail and prisons than in public psychiatric hospitals -- 238,800 in the former, 70,000 in the latter. This publication addresses the problem inherent with criminalizing the mentally ill. Sections discuss: factors in the migration from hospitals to correctional institutions; the high cost of incarcerating the mentally ill; multiple problems that complicate effective service delivery; the increasing lack of discretion in sentencing policy which inhibits problem solving and the use of less costly and more effective alternatives; and the bottom line -- incarceration is not a solution.
Accession Number: 015773
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