Mental Health Issues in Jails and Prisons   [Archived Catalog]
2011-2012 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Addendum
   
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FO 667 - Mental Health Issues in Jails and Prisons

This is a law course that will provide a comprehensive overview of the mental disability law issues in correctional settings (jails & prisons). Topics include the historical development of the constitutional right to correctional health and mental health care, issues involving staffing, transfer, record keeping, suicide prevention, the significance of professional standards, the relationship between correctional mental health care and community systems of care, monitoring, informed consent, risk assessment, and privatization of services. This course may require out-of-state travel for an in residence seminar. (3 credits)



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