Prisoners with serious mental health problems face urgent treatment delays. Almost three-quarters of prisoners in England faced delays being transferred to a mental health unit, according to official Department of Health figures

We have reported a systematic review and meta-analysis of RCTs of psychological therapies focused on prisoner mental health out- comes based on 37 studies involving 2,761

This report presents two prevalence estimates of mental health problems among state and federal prisoners and local jail inmates: met the threshold for SPD and told by a mental

In this structured review, we provide an overview of the epidemiology of psychiatric disorders in prison, summarise information on rates of suicide and violence victimisation

And yet a new study reports that only about half of prisoners diagnosed with and medicated for mental illness when admitted to a correctional facility receive treatment for

From Ireland lower rates of previous mental health treatment (34% including inpatient and outpatient treat- ments) in female committals to prison were reported as compared

in mental illness treatment funds in recent years, hospitals and mental health clinics have closed, and many mentally ill people ended up in jails and prisons... Dart last year

By establishing a mental health court in Ireland, perhaps the burden would be eased somewhat on the already over-extended prison system by diverting offenders with mental

106 CJINI ―Not a Marginal Issue: Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland‖ March 2010, 37 107 Prison Review Team ―Review of the Northern Ireland