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NY: For Detained Youths, No Mental Health Overseer

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

For Detained Youths, No Mental Health Overseer By JULIE BOSMAN New York Times: February 10, 2010 Edwina G. Richardson-Mendelson has been the administrative judge of the New York City Family Courts for nine months, in charge of the judges responsible for the detention of dozens of young people charged with crimes, the vast majority of whom suffer from some form of mental illness. But it was not until last September that she was informed of what struck her as a startling fact: The State of New York does not have a single full-time staff psychiatrist charged with overseeing the treatment of the 800 or so young people who are detained in state facilities at any given time. ?There wasn?t one human being on-site overseeing all the mental health needs of the population,? Judge Richardson-Mendelson said in an interview...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).