Mental health
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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Mental health
Jamaica
Persons held in Jamaica’s prisons who have been deemed ‘unfit to plead’ could be moved into a more fitting environment if the Government accepts the recommendations of the Mental Health and Homelessness Task Force, established by Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton.
Source — The Cleaner
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Mental health
South Africa
In February, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services introduced a Bill amending the Criminal Procedure Act, 1977 (CPA) to Parliament. The Bill seeks to stop the incarceration of accused persons who are mentally ill or intellectually disabled in prisons.
Source — All Africa
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Mental health
United States
One inmate, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, became so distraught after months in the prison’s isolation unit that he began talking to himself and counting compulsively.
Another, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder, declined so much in isolation that he smeared himself with feces.
Source — The Boston Globe
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Violence
United States
Secrecy, mistrust and the shadow of interrogation at the American
prison limited doctors’ ability to treat mental illness among detainees.
Dr. Rosecrans, now retired from the Navy, led one of the mental health teams assigned to care for detainees at the island prison over the past 15 years. Some prisoners…
Source — New York Times
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Women
Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
From self-harming in groups to starvation and self-immolation, women are overwhelmingly more likely than men to hurt themselves while incarcerated. So why isn’t the prison system responding?
Maria, 29, is a disability rights activist who uses a wheelchair. She also has borderline personality disorder…
Source — Broadly
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Health
Mental health
United Kingdom
More prisoners are being diagnosed with mental health problems requiring hospital treatment, official figures obtained by the Guardian show.
The number of male prisoners being transferred to hospital under the 1983 Mental Health Act grew by more than 20% between 2011 and 2014 in England and Wales, said…
Source — The Guardian
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Europe
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Mental health
France
Detention Conditions, Lack of Treatment Increase Suffering —
Thousands of men and women with psychosocial disabilities in French prisons are at risk of suicide or harming themselves because of the neglect of their physical and mental health, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Source — Human Right Watch
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