Prisons are losing the mental illness battle, says Frances Crook - The Guardian 31st October 2007

In 2002, 300 psychiatric nurses from the NHS were sent into prison hospitals to help prison staff handle the crisis of mental health in our jails. Likened by the then director general of the prison service, Martin Narey, to the "cavalry coming over the hill", what these in-reach teams found on reaching the summit was something akin to the battleground of Mordor at the beginning of the Lord of the Rings films. It was a battle that prison staff were - and still are - losing.

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