1. CORRECTION AND FORENSICS
Kacy and Brynn

2. WHO? Forensics: Of or relating to courts of law Corrections:
The action or process of correcting something
Nationally 17% of inmates suffer from mental illness

3. FORENSIC PATIENTS
Forensic patients are those who have been referred by the Courts for assessment or who have been declared as Not Criminally Responsible or Unfit to Stand Trial by the Criminal Justice System and admitted to a provincial forensic mental health system.
Illinois Jail

4. CHARACTERISTICS Signs of serious psychiatric disturbance
Come in conflict with the law
May have committed relatively minor offenses
Psychopath: usually normal in appearance but have emotional and behavioral dysfunctions; has clear perception of reality but feels no social or moral obligation to society.
Sociopath: Displays asocial and antisocial behavior; is seldom confused with a normal person; often react out of shameless desires; often reclusive, and lack social skills.

5. GUEST SPEAKER: DR. RAMON ZABRISKIE
PRISON CITY
Typical community
Home, job, community services
Educational system, political system, etc…
Healthcare system
Hospital, medical, dental
Mental health system (acute, residential, out-pt)
Treatment programs for: Substance abuse, Sex-offenders, people with mental illness, etc...

6. FOUR MAIN CATEGORIES OF MENTAL ILL OFFENDERS
1. Not guilty by reason
2. Incompetent to stand trial
3. Mentally disorder sex offender
4. Mentally disorder inmate

7. COMMON DISORDERS Depression Schizophrenia Bipolar
Alcohol or substance abuse
Personality disorders
Patterns of perceiving, reacting, and relating to other people and events that are relatively inflexible and that impair a person's ability to function socially
Borderline
Anti-social
Narcissism
How to you think each of these is worsened or made better in prison?
How would these people commit crimes?
Explain Bi-polar extreme mood swings
Anti-Social
-willing to take risks
-don’t experience anxiety
-Deceitful, aggressive, manipulative, irresponsible, impulsive, reckless. Lack of emotion ties to other people
Borderline: Unstable relationships. I hate you don’t leave me. Self-mutilation
Describe mood disorders

9. NEEDS
The severity of the mental illness of those coming in is increasing. People are no longer going to state hospitals. The prisoners often have no idea how they ended up here.”
-Dave Munson, lead psychologist at Washington State’s McNeil Island Correction Center
I don’t know how [some of these women] were sentenced to prison. They have no understanding of why they are prison. I don’t know what purposes it serves. To some degree the services will be limited, because this is prison, not a state hospital. We’re having to adjust and make changes to accommodate mental health-and it’s difficult.
–Gloria Henry, Warden of Valley State Prison for Women

10. TREATMENT (Shawshank Redemption)
The focus is on the inmates with the more “severe” disorders
Treatment is based on assessment, each patient has their own plan
Focus on:
Stress and anger management
Reality orientation
Treatment of psychosocial dysfunction
Providing a sense of achievement and progress and channeling energies into acceptable forms of behavior
Cognitive music exercise
Relaxation
Exercise
Overcoming boredom
(Shawshank Redemption)

11. TR IMPLICATIONS
In a correctional setting the purpose of CTRS is to help inmates:
Develop leisure skills
Reduce criminal recidivism
Assist in their transition to community living
Develop new occupational, behavior, social and recreational skills
Bring about a positive change that will ultimately lead to a better life
Forever Strong

12. THE BENEFITS The clients have a lot of time
Fastest growing career in the TR field
Constantly growing population
Good job security

13. REAL LIFE EXAMPLES