Assessing needs for psychiatric treatment in prisoners: 2. Met and unmet need.
Sharon JakobowitzPaul E BebbingtonNigel McKenzieRachel IvesonGary DuffieldMark KerrHelen KillaspyPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2016)
Unmet needs for mental health treatment and care were common in the two prisons. This has adverse consequences both for individual prisoners and for the effective functioning of the criminal justice system.