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<p>VIOLENCE. BRUTALITY. RAPE. OVERCROWDING. ISOLATION.</p> <p>DEPRESSION. SCHIZOPHRENIA. DELUSIONS. HALLUCINATIONS. SUICIDE.</p> <p>PRISON MADNESS</p> <p>Our correctional facilities have become inadequate and ill-prepared psychiatric wards-the largest purveyors of mental health services in the United States today. This country's correctional system houses well over a quarter of a million men and women who require mental health treatment. An unprecedented number of prisoners enter the system already in need of psychiatric attention, and countless others suffer emotional breakdowns inside as a result of the brutal, cruel, and inhumane treatment experienced behind bars.</p> <p>In prison, these men and women are subjected to ridicule, abuse, and punitive policies that worsen their psychiatric disorders and exacerbate an already explosive situation. Without adequate treatment, many wind up in punitive solitary confinement or subjecting themselves to a self-imposed isolation in their own cells-where their condition deteriorates. The result is a major hazard, not only to the prison population and their caretakers, but once released, these brutalized and broken individuals constitute a rea

Author

Terry A. Kupers

Publisher

Jossey-Bass, Incorporated Publishers

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780787943615

Subjects

Social Science, Medical, Psychology