PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Miller, Robert D.
AU  - Metzner, Jeffrey L.
TI  - Psychiatric Stigma in Correctional Facilities
DP  - 1994 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
PG  - 621--628
VI  - 22
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jaapl.org/content/22/4/621.short
4100  - http://jaapl.org/content/22/4/621.full
SO  - J Am Acad Psychiatry Law1994 Dec 01; 22
AB  - While legislatively sanctioned discrimination against the mentally ill in general society has largely disappeared, it persists in correctional systems where inmates are denied earn-time reductions in sentences, parole opportunities, placement in less restrictive facilities, and opportunities to participate in sentence-reducing programs because of their status as psychiatric patients or their need for psychotropic medications. The authors discuss the prevalence of such problems from detailed examinations of several correctional systems and from the results of a national survey of correctional medical directors.