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Sinking Ship

By "eAdvocate"

5-27-2010 Oregon: Prisons Try to Improve Mental Health Services; They Cut Them Instead THERE ARE 13,982 inmates currently residing in all 14 of Oregon's prisons. Of those prisoners, 6,844 (or 49 percent) have a diagnosed mental illness. Concerned about the treatment of inmates who have both a mental illness and a drug addiction, the state mandated in January that prisons double their mental health programs' staffing ratio to one staffer for every 10 inmates. Ironically, the move backfired. Anticipated cuts of up to 25 percent of its budget thanks to the financial crisis, the Oregon Department of Corrections says it will be too expensive to double its mental health staff. Instead, it is cutting the entire transitional treatment program for prisoners suffering from co-occurring mental illnesses and drug addictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).