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Mental Illness

A reader recently called our attention to an article that appeared back in April in the Salem (Oregon) Statesman Journal, titled “Oregon State Penitentiary Adapts to Mental Illness.” According to the Oregon Department of Corrections, about half of the state’s 14,000 prisoners— 6,797—are mentally ill. This is ten times greater than the population of the state’s primary psychiatric […]

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Mental Illness

Oregon Converts Supermax Unit to Treat Prisoners With Mental Illness

Abuse and Cover-Up in California Prisons’ “Behavior Management Units”

Cash-Strapped Colorado Comes Up With Funds for New Supermax

Maine Legislature Votes to Study Solitary Confinement Practices–But Not to Change Them

Devices of Torture in U.S. Prisons

Teen Kills Himself After Being Put in Solitary for…Trying to Kill Himself

Dead Man Killing Himself

Maine’s Solitary Confinement Bill: Another Test of Our Tolerance for Torture

Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

ACLU Calls on U.N. Human Rights Official to Stop Teen’s Torture in Montana Prison

Women Prisoners in Virginia Segregated for Having Mental Illness or “Looking Butch”

Canada Questions Solitary Confinement After Teenager’s Death

Inmate Allegedly Placed in Solitary for Refusing to Bribe Guards

The Maine Redemption: Bill Seeks to Restrict Use of Solitary in State’s Prisons

A Louisiana Inmate’s Death Wish

Rising Criticism of Tamms Illinois Supermax

NY Prison System Opens Unit for Mentally Ill

ACLU Says Teen Tortured at Montana Prison