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Prisoners and Prisons

Treatment Availability

Substance Abuse Treatment

• SURJ Issues Brief: Substance Abuse Treatment (March 2004)
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• SURJ Research Brief: Substance Abuse: Treatment Effectiveness and Cost Effectiveness (November, 2003)
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• SURJ White Paper: Substance Abuse and Delaware's Criminal Justice System (November 2003)
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Mental Health Treatment

On Friday, April 22, 2005, SURJ and the Delaware Center for Justice held the sixth annual Visions of Justice forum.  This year, the event held at the University of Delaware's Clayton Hall, attracted around a hundred people.  This forum, moderated by Jim Lafferty of the Mental Health Association of Delaware, featured five speakers who spoke in depth about those who have mental health problems in the criminal justice system.  These speakers offered both a national and a local perspective on this important issue.

Featured speaker, Fred C. Osher, MD, Director of the Center for Behavioral Health, Justice, and Public Policy, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, gave a thought-provoking presentation about national trends relating to this issue, and suggested several possible avenues for change.

Susan McLaughlin, Director of the Treatment Access Center (TASC) and Judge Joseph F. Flinkinger, III, Mental Health Court Judge gave a joint presentation about the New Castle County Mental Health Court Pilot Program.

Jeremy McEntyre and Don Napoli, from First Correctional Medical, filled in for Dr. Martha Boston, who had been scheduled to speak, but was not able to make it to the forum.  McEntyre and Napoli discussed the services that inmates with mental health illness receive in prison.  They described the process by which inmates are identified as needing mental health treatment, and shared some thoughts about how to improve the reentry process for these men and women.

The floor was then opened for a panel discussion. 

Pictures from the event

Dr. Osher's PowerPoint presentation

Read the minutes of the event