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PA: Professors: Prison fails mentally ill women

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Professors: Prison fails mentally ill women By Chris Foreman TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, March 13, 2011 Rosemary Gido calls state prisons asylums for the invisible, particularly women. A criminology professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Gido said an estimated 42 percent of women in U.S. jails and prisons are mentally ill, compared with 24 percent of men. In Pennsylvania, the Department of Corrections reports that 44 percent of female inmates and 18.6 percent of male inmates have mental health issues. Women are more likely to have a co-occurring disorder ? meaning mental health problems combined with drug or alcohol abuse ? and a history of trauma, according to Gido, the former director of program and policy analysis for the New York State Commission of Corrections...continue to full post

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