Youth Detention Facilities Contain Thousands Needing Mental Health Treatment
OPEN MINDS, The Behavioral Health & Social Service Industry Analyst
Industry News
Thousands of children with mental illnesses await needed community mental health services in juvenile detention centers across the country, according to a report released at a June 7, 2004, hearing of the U.S. Senate's Governmental Affairs Committee. The study, conducted by staff from the House Committee on Government Reform, found that children as young as seven were incarcerated because of a lack of access to mental health care. More than 340 detention centers, two-thirds of those . . .