Click Here to Read: Mental health in prisons: It’s a crime. With nowhere else to turn, prisons are stepping up to the challenge of treating mentally ill offenders by Jonathan Martin in the Seattle Times on October 19, 2013.
Offenders in the Intensive Management Unit of the Monroe Correctional Complex sit in a class chained to their desks. Twice a week, offenders are let out of solitary for hours of cognitive behavior therapy classes.