Title: An  Examination of S. 1194, the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2003
Subtitle: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United
Description: Of the prevalence of mental illness in jails: Licking County jail pilot study -- Art for a Child's Safer America Foundation 2003 fact sheet -- Critical care: wrongful deaths. Inadequate care. Questionable doctors. ... Health care in Ohio's 33 prisons is plagued with serious, deadly problems -- Prison doctors aren't top shelf; some come with big problems -- Lives lost and damaged: cost of inadequate care is measured in human terms and millions of dollars -- Medical care in Ohio's prisons -- When co-pay plan started, clinic visits started falling -- Panel to review health care for inmates: corrections chief wants recommendations for improvements in care by end of year -- Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2003 -- Achieving the promise: transforming mental health care in America -- Promoting justice in an unjust system: part one -- Alternative interventions for women -- The women's assessment project: final report.
Subjects: Mentally ill offenders, Legal status, laws, Mental health services, Care, Mentally ill