Prisons unable to cope with rising levels of mentally ill inmates - The Independent on Sunday 25th May 2008

Prison mental health services are struggling to cope as overstretched staff try to deal with rising levels of mental illness among prisoners, a major report will warn next week. Thousands of seriously mentally ill prisoners are being released untreated back into the community, it says. Prison mental health teams are underfunded by two-thirds and there are huge variations between regions, a new report by the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health and Lincoln University will say on Thursday.

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