Sundance Festival Highlights How the Criminal Justice System Treats Mental Illness
A high profile movie shown at The Sundance Festival recently highlighted the treatment of people with mental illness by America’s criminal justice system. Kenneth Rosenberg, a psychiatrist, and director of “Bedlam,” highlighted how the criminal justice system is failing the mentally ill at a movie showcased at the Sundance Festival earlier this year. Rosenberg described […]
Court Rules a Judge Can Order Arizona to Develop a Prison Staffing Plan to Meet Mental Health Needs
It’s no secret that mentally ill people require greater attention and care than other inmates in Arizona and elsewhere. Mental health advocates believe this means more prison workers are required to meet the unique needs of mentally ill inmates in prisons. The prison system in Arizona has fought demands for greater staffing. However, at the […]
Arizona is Accused of Dragging its Heels in Improving Mental Health Care for Inmates
The standard of mental health care for inmates in Arizona remains a matter of serious concern and an argument for alternatives. Recently, a judge accused the state over the standard of its mental health care for inmates. In November, a judge examining a legal settlement related to the standard of health care in Arizona prisons […]
Arizona Prisons Struggle with Rise in Inmate Self-Harm
As the mental health care in state prisons becomes increasingly worse, more and more inmates are attempting to harm themselves. New reports on inmate self-harm have come in as a result of the ADC attempting to settle a lawsuit over poor health conditions in state prisons. According to the data, hundreds of inmates in Arizona prisons have […]
