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DOCS opens new facility for mentally ill inmates

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

DOCS opens new facility for mentally ill inmates By Allison Roselle January 04, 2010 The first seven men have moved into a new mental health unit at an upstate prison designed to treat inmates with serious mental illnesses and disciplinary problems. The 100-bed residential mental health unit at the male, medium-security Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County was developed by the state Department of Correctional Services and the state Office of Mental Health as a result of a lawsuit involving Disability Advocates, Inc., a nonprofit advocacy organization. The facility will serve inmates suffering from severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, delusional disorders, brief psychotic disorders, substance-induced psychotic disorders, major depressive disorders and bipolar disorder who would typically be serving 23-hour-a-day confinement...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).