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| Sizable number of prisoners have serious mental illnesses |
| By siouxcityjournal.com |
| Published: 06/27/2013 |
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DES MOINES | About three in 10 inmates in Iowa’s prison system have some form of serious mental illness often linked to substance abuse. The problem gets even bigger when the population is expanded to offenders who are under supervised release in Iowa communities, state officials said Tuesday. “We are the largest mental health institute in Iowa,” Dr. Harbans Deol, medical director for the state Department of Corrections, told Senate Judiciary Committee members in presenting data indicating that 2,589 offenders in Iowa’s 8,333 prison population in 2012 were diagnosed as having serious mental illnesses. Read More. |
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