Mental health in corrections: the continuing dilemma.(Commentary)

From: Corrections Today | Date: February 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Mental health programs and correctional facilities have never been a good fit. Mental health patients come to the attention of legal authorities by engaging in illness-driven, aberrant or even bizarre law-breaking behavior--not a good match for an institution that is run by rules and holds people accountable for their actions. Mental health staff are, by both training and professional necessity, required to look deeper into specific, individual issues and problems. They must be flexible and tolerant in their responses, and they think best in egalitarian terms of common human ...

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