Preventive detention for people with personality disorder is wrong
...vention on human rights which prohibits preventive detention except in those of unsound mind. Of the Government...to bribe doctors into complicity in the indefinite detention of certain selected offenders." He adds "There is a crying need for mental health services for sever...Mental health of asylum seekers deteriorates with longer detention
...week's issue of THE LANCET highlight how prolonged detention has a substantial negative impact on the mental he... asylum seekers in the USA; they are often held in detention (forced to wear jail clothes and transported in shackles) for months or years pending adjudication o...Panel finds that scare tactics for violence prevention are harmful
...f the current research. The panel found that group detention centers, boot camps, and other "get tough" programs often exacerbate problems by grouping young people with delinquent tendencies, where the more sophisticated instruct the more nave. Similarly, the practice of transferring juveniles to the adult jud...Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
... of costs for the juvenile justice system included detention but not court costs or probation and aftercare services. Similarly, we have not captured general administrative costs. In the case of child welfare, for example, these costs could be quite large. If, as seems likely, these omitted costs are propor...