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Monitoring The Quality And Utilization Of Mental Health Services In Correctional Facilities
No full textExplosive growth in the population of seriously mentally ill inmates in prisons has created new demands for mental health services. Increased public expenditures for such services require increased accountability. This article identifies essential elements of an adequate system of mental health care in a correctional environment. It describes the common areas of vulnerability when the adequacy of correctional mental health services is challenged in court. It proffers several arguments in favor of a proactive program of monitoring the adequacy of mental health services in correctional facilities. Finally, the paper suggests specific areas and methods for monitoring both by internal quality assurance or quality improvement programs and by external bodies, including court-monitoring bodies
Criminalization Of People With Mental Illnesses: The Role Of Mental Health Courts In System Reform
No full textA Representative Democracy: An Unfulfilled Ideal For Citizens Of The District Of Columbia
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The Louisa Van Wezel Schwartz Symposium On Mental Health Issues in Correctional Institutions. Symposium Introduction
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Millennium Showdown For Public Interest Law And Non-White Access To Public Higher Education: Wolves Circling At The Henhouse Door
No full textInstitutions of higher education are uniquely positioned to influence the tone and character of justice available in the society. As centers of information and acculturation, colleges, universities, and professional schools determine the next generation of legal innovators and how they will be trained. In an era when aggressive opponents of racial equality indulged by a conservative court impede the gradual progress made possible through affirmative action programs, I believe that legal educators share considerable responsibility for the chronic deficiency of equal access to education plaguing racial minorities in this country. Intoxicated by the rhetoric of public interest and ritualistic tilting toward the challenge of social injustice, law faculty rest comfortably behind a fence of color blind neutrality and a phobia of change. Through a mdlange of omission and deliberate undertaking, would be champions of the people, we train and commission lawyers who undermine and ravage the very Constitution and people they claim to serve
Mental Health And Incarceration: What A Bad Combination
No full textThe District of Columbia has one of the highest per capita incarceration and criminal justice supervision rates in the United States1 and among the highest in the world. The local prison population has risen dramatically over the past decade for a variety of reasons including increased rates of re-incarceration for parole violations and the imposition of longer sentences for drug offenses. Recent acts of Congress have seriously impacted the sentencing laws in the District including determination of where persons sentenced for violating local D.C. laws will serve such sentences. On August 5, 1997, President Clinton signed into law The National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997 (the Revitalization Act ), / which effectively federalized the local prison population by transferring authority for incarcerating D.C. prisoners to the United States Bureau of Prisons. Thus, while there are still local prisoners, there is no longer a local prison, nor do the D.C. prisoners remain local. Rather, persons convicted of crimes in the District of Columbia are now held in prisons operated by, or contracted on behalf of, the federal government
