The NYSPA Report: The Mentally Ill Elderly in Prison: A Behavioral Health Crisis

• By: Henry C. Weinstein, MD NYU Medical Center
• January 1st, 2015
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A recent editorial in the New York Times titled: “Nursing Homes Behind Bars” notes that “after declining for three years in a row, the nation’s stubbornly huge prison population has crept back up again” and “aging inmates make up the largest and fastest-growing segment of the American...