Psychiatrists want ill out of jails
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Leading psychiatrists claim that Australian prisons have replacedasylums as holding centres for the mentally ill. – (Sydney Morning Herald — 16 July, 2005)
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Leading psychiatrists have admitted that a 20-year policy of treating mental patients in the community has failed. (The Australian — 16 July, 2005)
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Scott Simpson was at Sydney’s Long Bay jail when he was found dead in his cell, apparently after he hanged himself. By then Simpson, a tormented man described in prison documents as a delusional paranoid schizophrenic, had spent about two years in the high-risk management unit at Goulburn jail, locked in his cell 23 hours a day. (The Australian — 16 July, 2005)
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Queenslands peak mental health body says Governments are wasting money putting the mentally ill in prison It costs about $55 000 a year to keep a person in jail and a recent study in New South Wa (ABC News — 16 July, 2005)
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Shortcomings in the Queensland and South Australian mental health systems contributed to the failure to detect Cornelia Rau’s mental illness during her 10 months in wrongful detention. (The Australian — 16 July, 2005)
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