Prison mental health
Posted on Monday, February 19th, 2007 by Home Office WatchCategory: Prison
Is it just me, or is it rather worrying that the government is still relying on a decade-old report when it comes to evidence of mental health problems in the prison population?
Given this 1997 report revealed that 90% of offenders have some kind of mental health problem, and as many as 1 in 10 is functionally psychotic, you would have thought it worth keeping up to date with the scale of the problem.
Sadly, instead of investing money in mental health facilities, the government is determined to keep building extra prisons to warehouse people who desperately need treatment.
And on a less serious point, it even seems no-one’s sure when the report was actually done - in this answer just three days ago they said it was in 1998. Make up your mind, Gerry!
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