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20/09/22 06:15 AM IST

Mental Health

In News 
  • 9,180 prisoners with mental illness, 150 deaths by suicide, five prisoners with schizophrenia and epilepsy have died.
Key Findings 
  • Undertrial population makes up for over 70% of the prison population.
  •  More than half of those with mental illness were undertrials
  • Project 39A’s report: On mental health and the death penalty, Deathworthy, revealed that over 60% of death row prisoners had a current episode of mental illness.
  • Confined to prison causes -
  • Loss of liberty
  • Loss of close contact with loved ones
  • Loss of autonomy
Steps need to be taken 
  • Move beyond the treatment of individuals and towards identifying the social and underlying determinants of mental health in prisons.
  • We need to look at mental health in prisons from a social and structural perspective as well.
  • Reform, rehabilitation or reintegration(3Rs): They are meant to make prisoners confident in their lives, their choices and their ability to take decisions and be responsible and accountable for it.
Source- The Hindu 

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