Prison Mental Health Care Can Be Improved By Better Management And More Effective Federal Aid V. GGD-80-11

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GGD-80-11 1 (1979-11-23)

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BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL I(0 12-k

Report To The Congress

OF THE UNITED STATES

Prison Mental Health Care Can Be

Improved By Better Management

And More Effective Federal Aid

The mental health care delivery systems of
most prisons do not identify all inmates
needing help or provide proper care. The
systems have been hindered by limited
funding and personnel shortages; but man-
agers could begin to improve them by using
staff better, maintaining complete, well-
organized records, and monitoring and
evaluating programs more intensively.

This report contains recommendations on
how the Bureau of Prisons could improve
its system for providing inmates with mental
health care. It also discusses ways in which
programs conducted by several Federal
agencies could be used to help States im-
prove their prison mental health services.

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1 CO 1Jl * NOVEMBER 23. 1979