Mental health
Europe
Mental health
United Kingdom
Mentally ill prisoners in the largest high-security jail in the UK face “totally unacceptable” delays in being transferred to a secure hospital, leading to a further deterioration in their conditions, inspectors have said.
Source — The Guardian
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Europe
Health
Mental health
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Europe 1
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Italy: a government plan for harsher prison conditions
Analysis
Opinion
Europe
Mental health
Italy
Five Star Movement - Lega’s governing contract poses some problems: here is what Giuseppe Mosconi Professor of Sociology of Law and President of Antigone Veneto thinks
At first reading, Chapter 12 of the Five Star Movement and Lega’s government plan (or “government contract,” as they call it) seems…
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mental health
Mexico
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.
Source — El Siglo de Torreón
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Health
Mental health
Ireland
Percentage of prison population with mental illness more than doubled since 2015.
Source — Irish Times
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Europe
Mental health
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Blog Mediapart de l'OIP-SF
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Europe
Mental health
Violence
Bulgaria
The Committee Against Torture of the Council of Europe presented a report on Bulgaria, which reported a slight improvement in the conditions in the places where convictions are served in Bulgaria.
Source — Novinite
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Mental health
Ireland
Court of Appeal acknowledged ‘potentially chaotic and catastrophic consequences’ of its finding.
Source — The Irish Times
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Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
Mental Health Reform says it is “deeply concerned” that some vulnerable people still live in “mini-institutions” where there is no respect for their privacy or dignity.
Source — Irish Examiner
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Discipline
Mental health
United States
The more than three dozen men incarcerated in the behavioral health unit at the Oregon State Penitentiary spend almost 23 hours a day confined to a dark, small cell — a practice akin to “torture,” according to disability rights leaders.
Source — Statesman Journal
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Health
Mental health
United States
In America, jails and prisons have become the nation’s de facto mental healthcare providers – and the results are chilling
Source — The Guardian
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Europe
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Belarus
In Belarus, people are locked up to wean them off alcohol. These are strange places where time seems to have stopped after the fall of Soviet Union.
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Europe
Mental health
Belgium
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — La Libre
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Europe
Middle East
Mental health
France
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — France tv info
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Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
Report by Justice suggests introduction of specialist prosecutors and a change to the defence of insanity.
Source — The Guardian
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Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
The last reliable data on prevalence of offender mental health problems is from 1998, when the prison population was about half what it is today.
Source — The Guardian
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North America
Women
Health
Mental health
Canada
“I don’t agree that it’s society’s fault”.
The Royal should never have accepted an acutely ill inmate like Marlene Carter at its Brockville Mental Health Centre as part of a contract it had with Correctional Service Canada, says retired Conservative Senator Bob Runciman
Source — Ottawa Sun
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North America
Mental health
United States
Reports to the Advocacy Center said that disabled people who are incarcerated at David Wade Correctional Center have been beaten, slapped, kicked, stripped of their clothing in the winter and sprayed with mace and bleach. One report to the center said that disabled inmates were made to bark like dogs…
Source — Mic
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Europe
Mental health
Among the main issues, NPMs expressed concerns about two worrying trends: the increasing use and abuse of the concept of “dangerousness” enabling institutions to violate people’s rights; and the important lowering of the threshold for depriving someone of his/her liberty on psychiatric grounds.
Source — APT
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Minors
Oceania
Mental health
Australia
Children detained in an adult prison in Victoria were deprived of their human rights and faced risks to their mental health, a supreme court judge has found.
Source — The Guardian
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Mental health
Hungary
Hungary approved plans on Tuesday to detain migrants in camps on its border, state news agency MTI said, a step which the United Nations said violates European Union law and will have a “terrible physical and psychological impact” on asylum seekers.
Source — The Telegraph
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Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
Almost 75% of prisoners are facing delays in being transferred to NHS hospitals to receive urgent treatment for serious mental health problems.
Source — The Guardian
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