Maine prison officials estimate that 20 percent of the 600 inmates at the three

Authors

Source

Portland Press Herald

Date

10-31-1993

Pages

1B, 16B

Abstract

Maine prison officials estimate that 20 percent of the 600 inmates at the three prisons in Thomaston and Warren suffer from mental illness, and ten percent of the 500 inmates at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham are mentally ill or mildly retarded. The downsizing of state mental hosptials is part of the problem for the increase in mentally ill prisoners over the past two decades, and difficult financial times make it hard to give those prisoners the treatment they need. Details.

Subjects

Mentally handicapped, Mentally ill, Prisoners

Recommended Citation

"Maine prison officials estimate that 20 percent of the 600 inmates at the three" (1993). Maine News Index – Portland Press Herald. 9808.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_pph/9808