Mental Health Issues in Prison
Mental Health Issues in Prison
Aries Villagomez
August Term
Westwood College School of Justice
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Handbook on Prisoners with Special Needs, part of the Criminal Justice Handbook Series, all inmates run the risk to mental health issues, given that their freedom is limited and their lives are controlled by another individual or a group of people in authority, who in many cases abuse their power and create a rather intense environment for prisoners (2009, p.4). However, the physical and mental health of incarcerated people is threatened by prison conditions as well, in a large majority of countries over the globe, mostly due to poor physical conditions, overcrowding, lack or inadequacy of health care, absence of a sufficient amount of activities within the prison’s facilities, and violence, among others (Handbook on Prisoners with Mental Health, 2009 p.4). This paper will focus on the mental health problems caused to inmates, due to imprisonment and solitary confinement and to what extend can the high rates of suicides within correctional facilities are a direct outcome of the mental health of inmates that is a condition pro-existing incarceration or of it had been generated within prisons.
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Aries Villagomez
August Term
Westwood College School of Justice
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Handbook on Prisoners with Special Needs, part of the Criminal Justice Handbook Series, all inmates run the risk to mental health issues, given that their freedom is limited and their lives are controlled by another individual or a group of people in authority, who in many cases abuse their power and create a rather intense environment for prisoners (2009, p.4). However, the physical and mental health of incarcerated people is threatened by prison conditions as well, in a large majority of countries over the globe, mostly due to poor physical conditions, overcrowding, lack or inadequacy of health care, absence of a sufficient amount of activities within the prison’s facilities, and violence, among others (Handbook on Prisoners with Mental Health, 2009 p.4). This paper will focus on the mental health problems caused to inmates, due to imprisonment and solitary confinement and to what extend can the high rates of suicides within correctional facilities are a direct outcome of the mental health of inmates that is a condition pro-existing incarceration or of it had been generated within prisons.
References
Last Name, F. M. (Year). Article Title. Journal Title, Pages From - To.
Last Name, F. M. (Year). Book Title. City Name: Publisher Name.
Footnotes
1[Add footnotes, if any, on their own page following references. For APA formatting requirements, it’s easy to just type your own footnote references and notes. To format a footnote reference, select the number and then, on the Home tab, in the Styles gallery, click Footnote Reference. The body of a footnote, such as this example, uses the Normal text style. (Note: If you delete this sample footnote, don’t forget to delete its in-text reference as well. That’s at the end of the sample Heading 2 paragraph on the first page of body content in this template.)]
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