These mental traumas from being in prison do not merely disappear upon release; they often linger, impacting an individual’s ability to reintegrate into society effectively.

According to a study published in BMC Psychology, “The prison environment can be inherently damaging to mental health due to the consequent disconnect from family, society, and social support ...

An “extremely dangerous” felon who escaped from an Oregon mental hospital in full shackles was found buried in mud up to his armpits -- and nearly absconded again by giving a fake name before ...

News; US News; Prisons; Man who escaped mental hospital in shackles found buried up to his armpits in mud Christopher Pray was discovered on Friday morning after Portland Fire & Rescue rescue ...

This loss of agency represents just the beginning of prison’s psychological impact. Add in overcrowding, sensory deprivation, unpredictable violence, and separation from support systems, and you ...

The prison system often does a poor job of managing severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia. When mental illness goes untreated, it only gets worse. People who don't take the medication they ...

Tristin Murphy, a man with schizophrenia who was in and out of jail because of his mental illness, killed himself while ...

The Tristin Murphy Act is named for an inmate who died by suicide in 2021 at a state prison work program while experiencing a ...

PRISON overcrowding is commonly in the news. The number of people imprisoned worldwide increases year on year, and so do the number of prisoners with mental illness.

At 21, Mikal was finally released from prison. But the anger, severe depression and mental illness that he entered prison with, worsened by solitary and never treated, only culminated in more tragedy.

The acute mental health crisis behind bars can be seen in the latest government figures on prisoner safety, which reveal that there were 21,412 incidents of self-harm in women’s prisons reported ...