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Goal: Keep mentally ill out of prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Sunday, Aug 24, 2008 Goal: Keep mentally ill out of prison BY RON SYLVESTER The Wichita Eagle These links at this URL: ://www.kansas.com/213/story/504459.html # The book ?Criminalization of Mental Illness? by Risdon N. Slate and W. Wesley Johnson (Carolina Academic Press) # A 2003 study by Human Rights Watch says mentally ill prisoners are mistreated in the U.S. # Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act # How crisis intervention by law enforcement worked in Memphis # Read more about the mentally ill and effects of isolation cells in a report by Eva Nilsen of Boston University School of Law Eyes peered through the narrow window in the cell door. "I'm getting out tomorrow," said the man, little more than a disembodied voice shouting over the screams of neighboring inmates at the Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).