Self Realization Publications: Criminology: Prison Madness

Criminology

Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It
by Terry Kupers, M.D.

Our prisons have become inadequate and ill-prepared psychiatric wards - the largest purveyors of mental health services in the United States today. This country's correctional system houses well over a quarter of a million men and women who require mental health treatment.

An unprecedented number of prisoners enter the system already in need of psychiatric attention, and countless others suffer emotional breakdowns inside as a result of brutal, cruel, and inhumane treatment experienced behind bars.

Terry Kupers, an expert in the field of forensic psychiatry, not only exposes the sad fact that prisons, by design, fail miserably to correct, he also offers a prescription, A CALL TO ACTION for immediate prison reform. Kupers outlines successful programs throughout the United States and the world and makes practical recommendations, including guidelines for the upgrade and revitalization of rehabilitation programs and the development of comprehensive mental health services.

Kupers' passionate pleas will empower judges, lawmakers, mental health practitioners, and citizens to use their influence to put an end to prison crowding and STOP sending nonviolent and mentally disordered felons onto prison yards with murderers and rapists. Prison Madness signals on exposing current prison policies and the treatment of mentally disordered prisoners as cruel and unusual punishment.

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