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From Prisons to Hospitals -- and Back: The Criminalization of Mental Illness
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: 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.