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| Study links non-treatment to crimes, jail |
| By All Headline News |
| Published: 01/16/2009 |
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MASSACHUSETTS - A new study by Harvard University researchers linked non-treatment of mental ailments to crimes and being jailed. It was based on an observation of American prisoners, 25 percent of whom have different types of chronic mental illnesses. Among their ailments were schizophrenia, bipolar illness and depression. The researchers analyzed data collected in 2002 and 2004 from various prison facilities across the U.S. and found out that two-thirds of inmates with mental illness were not undergoing treatment at the time of their arrest. Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, author of the study and associate professor of medicine at Harvard, explained to the Boston Globe, "For many of them, treatment of their mental illness before their arrest might have prevented criminality and the staggering human and financial costs of incarceration." Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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