Data show a disproportionate number of our mentally ill enter our prisons with psychoticism and paranoid ideation, but also anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder (CSC 2010); schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, brain injuries and the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome; even impairment from dementia or low intelligence and a lack of coping skills (Makin, 2011). Far too many experience their first contact with the mental health system through the justice system (ON 2010).
- http://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/text/rsrch/smmrs/rg/rg-r218/rg-r218-eng.shtml;
- http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-canadas-prisons-cant-cope-with-flood-of-mentally-ill-inmates/article563604/?page=all ;
- http://www.ontla.on.ca/committee-proceedings/committee-reports/files_pdf/Select%20Report%20ENG.pdf