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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. Mental health among female offenders in the United States

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   Women in American prisons encounter numerous difficulties that often involve mental health problems, drug and alcohol issues, and trauma. These challenges not only make navigating the criminal justice system more difficult for women but also highlights broader societal issues such as gender-based violence, economic inequalities, and lack of mental health support. [1]

4. Incarceration prevention in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The overall shift from institution-based care to a community-based care model was one that many mental health advocates welcomed; however, the funding appropriated to support such programs was much less than initial estimates and has had a significant impact on the ability of the community care based model to be successful in providing adequate ...

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

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   After losing a loved one in prison in 2016 to an apparent suicide, Lozano also counsels women experiencing mental health crises. Recent changes to state law make it easier for offenders who were ...

6. WA confined hundreds for sexual violence. Then it quietly ...

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   Yet even though mental health services must be offered to keep the program on the right side of the law, DSHS offers few other psychiatric services outside of sex offender treatment and only an ...

7. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental health

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   However, there must be a formal institutional hearing, the prisoner must be found to be dangerous to himself or others, the prisoner must be diagnosed with a serious mental illness, and the mental health care professional must state that the medication prescribed is in the prisoner's best interest. 14th 1992 Riggins v. Nevada