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What Do Human Rights Offer Correctional Mental Health Professionals? An Essay  


Author:  Jamie  Fellner.


Source: Volume 11, Number 06, March/April 2010 , pp.83-85(3)




Correctional Mental Health Report

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Abstract: 

The right of prisoners to receive mental health services — and the concomitant obligation of prisons to provide such services — is also inherent in the right to health, one of the many rights which prisoners do not leave behind at the prison gates.

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Affiliations:  1: Senior Counsel, U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch.

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