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OH: Mental health care burdens prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Mental health care burdens prisons By Lou Grieco Staff Writer Monday, April 06, 2009 DAYTON ? Ohio prisons projected spending $64 million on inmates' mental health care in 2006 ? or $8.7 million more than prison officials planned to spend on meals. Instead, mental health costs reached $68.4 million. Last year, they climbed to $70.2 million. "Prison has become a de facto mental health hospital," Ohio Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Lundberg Stratton said Thursday, April 2, at the University of Dayton. Stratton was at UD to talk to a senior seminar of criminal justice students about mental health courts, which deal with treating and rehabilitating mentally ill offenders. Ohio leads the nation in the number of courts that have mental health dockets, and should have more than 40 by the end of this year, Stratton said...continue to full post

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