OTTAWA – Canada’s prison watchdog wants the Conservative government to commit to moving severely mentally-ill inmates out of prisons and into secure psychiatric hospitals run by the provinces and territories. Correctional Investigator Howard Sapers says a handful of inmates are too sick for the federal prison system to handle and the government should contract out services from hospitals.
“The Correctional Service of Canada cannot, and I don’t believe they should, replicate the mental health care system,” Sapers said in an interview. Click on link below to read entire article:
Get severely mentally ill out of prison . . .
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