Mental Health in the House of Corrections

June 2004 Mental Health in the House of Corrections The Correctional Association's two-year study of mental health care in New York State prisons which involved 22 visits to 20 correctional facilities, survey interviews with over 400 inmates on the mental health caseload and focus groups with correction officers, mental health staff and prison administrators' reveals both systemic problems and service deficiencies as well as some model programs. Specifically, the prison system's sole psychiatric hospital has not been expanded since it opened in 1980, despite a tripling in the inmate population since that time. System-wide, staff and . . .