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Insanity And Incompetency: Courts, Communities, And The Intersections Of Mental Illness And Criminal Justice In The Wake Of Kahler And Trueblood, Gwendolyn West
Insanity And Incompetency: Courts, Communities, And The Intersections Of Mental Illness And Criminal Justice In The Wake Of Kahler And Trueblood, Gwendolyn West
Golden Gate University Law Review
Today, people with mental illnesses in the United States are ten times more likely to be incarcerated than hospitalized. About 20 percent of the United States population experiences some kind of mental illness each year, and about 3 to 5 percent of the population experiences a severe and persistent mental illness. By contrast, more than 60 percent of jail inmates and at least 45 percent of prison inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness. Studies have found that anywhere from 25 percent to 71 percent of people with serious mental illness in a given community have a …
Reimagining Criminal Justice: How We Traded Out Asylums For Prisons, Zaynah Zaman
Reimagining Criminal Justice: How We Traded Out Asylums For Prisons, Zaynah Zaman
Reimagining Criminal Justice
The criminal justice system fails to adopt alternative mental health reforms better equipped to handle mental health crises rather than placing the mentally ill in institutions that have proven to worsen their illness. The criminalization of mental illness must end, says Zaynah Zaman, a student at Golden Gate University School of Law.
Lifetime Likelihood Of Going To State Or Federal Prison, Us Department Of Justice
Lifetime Likelihood Of Going To State Or Federal Prison, Us Department Of Justice
National Institute of Justice Office of Justice Programs
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