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Santa Barbara CA: Officials Mull Privatizing Mental Health Services by signing contract with Prison Health Services

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prison System for Sale Officials Mull Privatized Jail Mental Health Services Thursday, May 28, 2009 By Benjamin Gottlieb Santa Barbara County?s jail mental health system officially is for sale. The prospective buyer???a private Tennessee-based prison health company???is already lined up with a July 1 move-in date. This is the way the Sheriff?s Department broke the news at a special meeting of the Santa Barbara County Mental Health Commission on Tuesday, informing the council of the proposed transition of mental health services from county Mental Health to the private company Prison Health Services (PHS). The pitch, helmed by Sheriff Bill Brown, touched on the department?s various budget problems and the need to improve mental health services in County Jail, which oversees the largest number of the mentally ill in the county...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).