The Nightmare of Prison for Individuals With Mental Illness

The Nightmare of Prison for Individuals With Mental Illness

The result was that many people with mental illnesses found themselves in the prison system. Systems underfunded and understaffed without training who were primarily focused on incarceration rather than the needs of anyone with a health condition …

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For years, conditions inside the United States' only federal supermax facility …

(Until recently prison regulations forbade the placement of inmates on psychotropic medication in the Control Unit, the most restrictive section of the ADX, as, by definition, such medication implies severe mental illness.) Others claimed that they …

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Mental health should not be taboo

“A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community.” That is the definition of …

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Education Does Not Make You a Happier Person

According to a press release, researchers from Warwick Medical School were inspired by the strong association between poor education and mental illness and wanted to investigate if the opposite was true: Does being educated lead to happiness? The team …

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