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| Quarter of Mich. prisoners need mental health care |
| By chron.com |
| Published: 08/22/2011 |
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — About a quarter of Michigan's 43,000 state prisoners are mentally ill, and new Michigan Corrections Director Dan Heyns says he wants to shift responsibility for their treatment from his department to other agencies. "Corrections has had a kind of mission creep over the years," Heyns told The Detroit News for a story published online Sunday (http://j.mp/qC9Gbh ). "We're doing mental health stuff, we're educators and job trainers, you name it. "We need to bring the Michigan Corrections Department back to its original mission, which is corrections." Heyns, a former Jackson County sheriff, took over the state's prison system in June. He and corrections spokesman Russ Marlan said the department would like to get away from responsibility for providing mental health treatment, education, job training, housing and transportation for parolees. Read More. |
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