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PULSE ANNUAL No. 2
January 2003

Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
March 2002

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October 2001

 

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daily link  Wednesday, January 28, 2004


Human rights for women in prison systemically undermined: commission report (Canada)
CP story at CanadaEast - "Systemic flaws routinely erode the human rights of women in prison, says the Canadian Human Rights Commission. It makes 19 recommendations in a report released Wednesday on how to fix discrimination on the basis of sex, race and disability. Critics of the corrections system launched a human rights complaint against the federal government in 2001 for what they've long said is discriminatory and inhumane treatment of women in prison. ... Women who are classified as maximum security often have mental health problems, do not have access to all the services they need and often end up in segregation for months on end, exacerbating their condition. ..." See also the Protecting Their Rights section of the Canadian Human Rights Commission site, where the report and submissions from stakeholders that served as input to the report, and other related documents are available.  
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Scathing report on Youth Authority (California)
San Jose Mercury News story - " Juveniles sentenced to California Youth Authority facilities for serious crimes are regularly locked in cages, over-medicated and denied essential psychiatric treatment, according to a report commissioned by the state Attorney General's Office. The report, obtained Tuesday by the Mercury News, found that the nine institutions examined were more like prisons than facilities designed to reform and rehabilitate youthful offenders, and that conditions there worsened the problems of wards who suffered from mental health disorders and substance abuse problems." The report is not yet available at the California Attorney General web site, but should be within the next few days.  
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