U.S. Department of Justice
Home > Library > Mentally ill > Mental Illness, Human Rights, and US Prisons: Human Rights Watch Statement for the Record, Senate Judiciary Committee, Suncommittee on Human Rights and the Law

Library ID

  • 024037

Other Information

  • Published 2009.
  • 14 pages.

Download Information

Keywords

  • Mentally Ill

Mental Illness, Human Rights, and US Prisons: Human Rights Watch Statement for the Record, Senate Judiciary Committee, Suncommittee on Human Rights and the Law

Publication year: 2009 | Cataloged on: Oct. 26, 2009
ANNOTATION: This document is a “brief overview of the problems faced by mentally ill persons who are incarcerated and the human rights that are implicated” (p. 1). Sections of this document cover: prisons and prisoners with mental illness—overview; supermaximum security prisons and isolation; re-entry; mental health and American prisons—a human rights framework; and recommendations.
Share This
[+] feedback