Prison health care: Prisons replace hospitals for the mentally ill

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Morgan Moss, co-founder of the Center for Therapeutic Justice has helped set up special, inmate-directed living units in correctional facilities where like-minded detainees agree to help each other improve their lives, setting up a community inside the jail, built on social values like honesty and respect. When such a community starts functioning, the mentally ill prisoners in the jail will be looked after by the other inmates, thus reducing suicides and the isolation that often worsens the condition of mentally ill prisoners.

United States, Care and treatment, Mentally ill persons, Mentally ill

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Prison reform: Takeover at Attica

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Details of a four-day prisoner takeover of New York state prison at Attica in 1971 are presented, where the police operations during retaking of the facility led to several deaths and abuse of prisoners. The rebellion was concluded to be a consequence of the official injustices and mismanagement common in all prisons.

Management dynamics, New York, Analysis, Management, History, Demonstrations and protests, Company business management, Prison violence, Prisoner abuse, Attica Riot, New York, 1971, New York. Department of Correctional Services. Attica State Prison

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