RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Psychiatric Stigma in Correctional Facilities
JF Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online
JO J Am Acad Psychiatry Law
FD American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
SP 621
OP 628
VO 22
IS 4
A1 Miller, Robert D.
A1 Metzner, Jeffrey L.
YR 1994
UL http://jaapl.org/content/22/4/621.abstract
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.