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| County jail inspections go unenforced |
| By wisconsinwatch.org - Kate Golden |
| Published: 06/05/2013 |
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Last year, the Center’s Rory Linnane, Tegan Wendland and Kate Golden leafed through hundreds of pages of Wisconsin county jail inspections, examining the quality of mental health care. Their December report — Ignored and underfunded, mental health care thin at county jails — revealed: Wisconsin’s county-run jails are overloaded with people with mental illness — but services are largely inadequate. The state Department of Corrections is charged with oversight but does not evaluate the quality of jails’ mental health care . For nearly a quarter-century, the Legislature has required the DOC to collect and summarize annual reports on jails’ mental health care, but most jails have not provided the information, and the DOC acknowledges it has not been asking for them. One-third of Wisconsin’s jails have been cited for inadequate suicide prevention efforts. Read More. |
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