incarceration

Have American jails become the inferior replacement for mental hospitals?

Author: Editorial 9th September 2022 0 Comments

“A new study reveals that 10 times as many people with serious mental illnesses are in jails as state hospitals” This article by Mathew Rozsa has been published in Salon. It begins: “ London’s Bedlam psychiatric hospital is infamous today for how its staff brutally…
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Bedlam, BMC Health Services Research, Culture & Society, George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, incarceration, Mathew Rozsa, Niloofar Ramezani, prison, Salon, USA

Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America

Author: Editorial 17th February 2022 0 Comments

Little discussed, there is another aspect to the issues surrounding psychotropic drugs. It concerns the use of such drugs, not for psychiatric reasons, but simply to keep more-or-less captive sections of society – e.g. prisoners and those in care homes,…
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Anthony Ryan, books, care homes, foster homes, immigrant detention centres, incarceration, nursing homes, prison, psychotropic drugs, racism, techno-correctional policies