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  2. Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons

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    A 2017 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics noted that 54.3% of prisoners and 35% of jail inmates who had experienced serious psychological distress in the past 30 days have received mental health treatment since admission to the current facility, and 63% of prisoners and 44.5% of jail inmates with a history of a mental health problem ...

  3. 'Criminalizing the most vulnerable': Should the mentally ill ...

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    For decades, those with mental illness have been overrepresented in jails and prisons as roughly 2 in 5 people who are incarcerated have a history of mental illness, according to the National ...

  4. Mental health among female offenders in the United States

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    Despite the growing prison population in the United States and the prevalence of mental health problems "In-prison services have not expanded sufficiently to meet treatment needs. In fact, between 1988 and 2000, prison mental health services declined, and those services that are available are concentrated only in the most secure facilities."

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    A licensed practical nurse employed with Centurion Health, then contracted to provide care in some Florida prisons, spent six minutes conducting what appeared to be a cursory mental-health ...

  6. Prison healthcare - Wikipedia

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    [9]: 2 64 percent of jail inmates, 54 percent of state prisoners, and 45 percent of federal prisoners in the US report having mental health concerns. [39] Health care in American women's prisons often does not meet the needs of women prisoners, such as in the areas of pregnancy and prenatal care, menstrual hygiene and gynecological services ...

  7. Can California change a dark culture at Chowchilla women's ...

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    Every day, they fan out across the prison, serving as something between a therapist and life coach to the roughly 2,100 women incarcerated at the facility, one of two women's prisons in California.

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