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Canada’s prisons becoming warehouses for the mentally ill
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Dec. 07, 2011
More than one in 10 men and nearly one in three women held in federal prisons have mental-health problems, according to 2009 figures from the Correctional Service of Canada. Those numbers represent a near-doubling in the total proportion of inmates with mental illnesses between 1997 and 2009… “Psychiatric institutions have been closing over the years, and the mentally ill … have now found that the correctional system has become the institution of last resort”… The problem could intensify once the omnibus crime bill becomes law…
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, mental Health, rights
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