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| Budget funds mental health reforms in some prisons |
| By wral.com- Tyler Dukes |
| Published: 09/17/2015 |
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Raleigh, N.C. — With the final version of the state budget now in hand, advocates say they remain wary about funding meant to reform mental health treatment in North Carolina prisons. The budget negotiated by House and Senate leadership, released Monday night, calls for about $12 million over the next two years to expand the mental health facility at Central Prison in Raleigh and create eight treatment units at maximum-security prisons across the state. The funding would provide for 218 new positions within those prisons, with hiring divided roughly in half between 2015 and 2016. The push for mental health reform in state prisons has gained ground over the last year after an inmate died of thirst in the back of a prison transport van in March 2014. Michael Kerr, who suffered from schizoaffective disorder that went untreated for at least six months, had been in solitary confinement for more than a month and was left handcuffed and unresponsive in his cell for five days prior to his death. Read More. |
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