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| Study: 93% of prisoners have had disorders |
| By The Des Moines Register |
| Published: 05/01/2008 |
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IOWA - More than 90 percent of the men and women entering Iowa's prisons have had mental illness or an addictive disorder, and 30 percent are at risk for suicide, according to a new University of Iowa study. The findings, released Wednesday by the U of I, didn't surprise prison officials or inmate advocates. "I have heard from a number of prisoners about their own suicide attempts or attempts of others," said Jean Basinger, of Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants, a prisoner advocacy group. "(Suicide) is related to mental illness, but related more to a sense of hopelessness." U of I researchers interviewed 320 randomly selected nonviolent offenders -- 264 men and 56 women -- newly committed to the Iowa Medical and Classification Center at Oakdale from 2005 to 2007. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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