A Human Right Still Unmet: Medical Treatment of Mentally Ill Prisoners

• By: Erin Falconer, PhD Amy Joscelyne, PhD ODH, Inc.
• January 1st, 2018
• access to care, criminal justice system, dual loyalty, human rights, incarceration, mental health rights, recidivism, serious mental illness
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Individuals with mental illness have the right to receive appropriate medical treatment in correctional settings and upon release. It sounds perfectly reasonable, but unfortunately, is far from reality. That was the consensus of a distinguished panel of mental health and legal experts who recently...