4,5 Treatment decisions often depend on the limited available resources, public support of correctional treatment, and correctional management decision-making. 1–3 Despite court mandates for access to adequate health care in prisons (these mandates are even further limited to “severe” and “serious” mental illness treatment requirements in prison settings), inmate access to health and mental health care has been sporadic. Mental health disorders among prisoners have consistently exceeded rates of such disorders in the general population, and correctional facilities in the United States are often considered to be the largest provider of mental health services.
This treatment discontinuity has the potential to affect both recidivism and health care costs on release from prison. A substantial portion of the prison population is not receiving treatment for mental health conditions.
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This lack of treatment continuity is partially attributable to screening procedures that do not result in treatment by a medical professional in prison.Ĭonclusions. Inmates with schizophrenia were most likely to receive pharmacotherapy compared with those presenting with less overt conditions (e.g., depression). In prison, more than 50% of those who were medicated for mental health conditions at admission did not receive pharmacotherapy in prison. About 26% of the inmates were diagnosed with a mental health condition at some point during their lifetime, and a very small proportion (18%) were taking medication for their condition(s) on admission to prison. We conducted survey logistic regressions with Stata version 13. We obtained data from 18 185 prisoners interviewed in the 2004 Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities. We assessed mental health screening and medication continuity in a nationally representative sample of US prisoners.
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