Mentally Ill Inmates in Alaska Prisons
Group: University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center
URL: http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/21/1spring2004/bs1_mentallyilldoc.html
Description
As with the U.S. prison system in general, the Alaska correctional system is the largest provider of mental health care services in the state. According to a 1997, approximately 37 percent of the population of Alaska Department of Corrections (DOC) facilities exhibit a mental disorder—mental illness (including major psychiatric disorders) and/or chronic alcoholism. This article discusses DOC's efforts to supervise and treat mentally ill inmates under its supervision and describes some of the obstacles to effective provision of mental health care services to inmates.
Tags
corrections, mental health, inmates
Other Attributes
- Sub-location
- Statewide
- Categories
- Sectors (Govt, Non-Profit, etc)
- Non-Profit
- Formats
- PDF, HTML
- Location in resource
- N/A
- Internet Available?
- Yes
- Has population data?
- No
- Mappable?
- No
- Updated?
- No
- Frequency
- N/A
- Year(s) of Publication
- 2004
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