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Drugging Aggression Behind Bars  


Author:  James L.  Knoll IV.; Robert  Wilbur.


Source: Volume 15, Number 02, July/August 2013 , pp.17-20(4)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

Proper forensic psychopharmacology does not begin with a marginally trained prison employee popping a pill into an inmate’s mouth, although that is the rule rather than the exception in many if not most jurisdictions. American penology has largely given up on rehabilitation and cure in favor of retribution. That measure should be reserved for the very end of the process, except in situations where inmates become violently aggressive.

Keywords: Washington v. Harper; Rivers v. Katz

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