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: Current AwarenessPrisons unable to cope with rising levels of mentally ill inmates - The Independent
By sally
“Prison mental health services are struggling to cope as overstretched staff try to deal with rising levels of mental illness among prisoners, a major report will warn next week. Thousands of seriously mentally ill prisoners are being released untreated back into the community, it says.”
The Independent, 25th May 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk

Full post as published by Current Awareness on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).
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