plinary sanctions, transfer to higher security institutions and separation from general
population. This state of affairs is especially prevalent in the maximum security and multi …

Chairman Scott, Congressman Forbes, and members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the
invitation to testify about the urgent problems created by the Prison Litigation Reform Act, a …

As of 2013, over 10 million people were incarcerated worldwide (Walms-ley 2013), with over
1.6 million in US prisons alone (Guerino et al. 2011). The goals of corrections are twofold: 1) …

An introductory chapter enumerates the various methods by which an individual caught up
in the criminal process may be placed in the hands of the institutional psychiatrist …

From his patient seat in the courtroom's jury box, Ramon Diaz quietly sighed and rested his
cheek on his shackled wrist. At the time, a sunny Friday morning in the winter of 2015 …

I need to explain my choice of sub-title. It is more usual for the term to combine admiration
with remembrance of past times. 1 I have chosen to use it in a slightly more pejorative sense …

By the mid-twentieth century, the United States was in crisis: over half a million Americans
were in state mental hospitals.'With new developments on the horizon-including the …

The extent to which mental health systems across the United States have failed those that
they are intended to serve is best illustrated by more people with serious mental illnesses …

At sentencing, a judge may foresee that an individual with a major mental disorder will
experience serious psychological or physical harm in prison. In light of this reality and …

California communities are bracing for the onslaught of over 30,000 early release prisoners
in the coming two years. This action is in response to the thousands of inmate claims filed to …