Mental illness being reassigned to prison

Detention centres and prison's are holding bays for mentally ill people who have gone under the radar of psychiatric services until they acted out their disease through crime. Those criminals most likely suffering from a psychiatric disease are reoffenders who spend more time in jail than other inmates. There is continuously less government expenditure on mental health facilities, but funding is still put towards incarcerating people in jails, more and more of which are those with mental illness.

Source: summary of medical news story as reported by The Gazette

Related Disease Topics:

• Mentally ill
• Psychiatric disease
• Mental health
• Mental illness

Related Symptom Topics:

• Crime

Article Source Details

About: Mental illness being reassigned to prison

Date: 28 August 2005

Source: The Gazette

Author: R Scott Rappold

URL: http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1310080

Related Medical Topics

This summary article refers to the following medical categories:

• Cause of crime
• Cause of incarceration
• Cause of violence
• Cause of criminal behavior
• Risk and mentally ill
• Risk and psychiatric disease
• Risk and mental health
• Risk and mental illness
• Risk and prison
• Undiagnosed and mentally ill
• Undiagnosed and psychiatric disease
• Undiagnosed and mental health
• Undiagnosed and mental illness
• Undiagnosed and crime
• Undiagnosed and prison
• Undiagnosed and jail
• Undiagnosed and detention

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