Evaluating privilege requests from mentally ill prisoners.

Mental disorders and request for psychiatric intervention in an Italian local jail.

The issue of the prevalence of psychiatric illnesses in Italian prison samples has not received the same attention paid at an international level. The aims of the present study were to evaluate the prevalence of psychiatric disorders diagnosed according to DSM-III-R criteria among an Italian prisoner population, and to examine prisoners' requests for psychiatric intervention in relationship to ...

Psychiatry and the death penalty.

Mentally ill people are not to be judged by the same rules as the mentally fit. Prisoners evaluated medically unfit for execution must undergo psychiatric treatment until their mental health is restored. Psychiatrists are placed in an ethical dilemma when asked to judge the mental health of prisoners on death row. A high prevalence of psychiatric and neurological disorders are reported on death...

Mentally ill prisoners in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation: strategies for improving treatment and reducing recidivism.

Taking the solitary confinement debate out of isolation.

The use of solitary confinement, particularly with mentally ill prisoners, has become a central focus of prison reform efforts in recent years. Numerous articles in the scholarly literature and popular media have chronicled the experiences of prisoners placed in long-term isolation, shining a spotlight on the growing use of the practice and its detrimental effects. This media attention has serv...

Mentally abnormal prisoners on remand: II--Comparison of services provided by Oxford and Wessex regions.

Most regional health authorities have or plan to have secure units for treating mentally abnormal offenders. A retrospective study was carried out to compare the effectiveness of the health care services for men remanded to Winchester prison from Oxford and Wessex regions over the five years 1979-83. Thirty seven (30%) of 124 prisoners from Oxford region were rejected for treatment compared wit...