Prison chaplains warn about jailing the mentally-ill
Irish Daily Mirror|May 03, 2023
PRISON chaplains have warned about inmates carrying out "extreme acts of self-harm" or dying just after they are released.
EOGHAN MURPHY
Prison chaplains warn about jailing the mentally-ill

They have also lashed out at mentally ill prisoners being wrongly accommodated in jails instead of psychiatric hospitals.

The concerns are contained in prison chaplains' annual reports for 2021, which have just been published.

This story is from the May 03, 2023 edition of Irish Daily Mirror.

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