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Recovering Inside? Ethical Challenges in Correctional Mental Health Care
Start Date: 10/20/2016Start Time: 8:00 AM
End Date: 10/20/2016End Time: 4:00 PM

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A shadow health care system now exists behind bars in the US, with a substantial amount of behavioral health care delivered in correctional settings.

There are approximately 2.6 million people incarcerated in the US, which equates, by far, to the world’s highest incarceration rate (~700/100,000 people). It is estimated that 50% of inmates of jails and prisons have a mental illness, and 15-20% have a serious mental illness.

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National Constitution Center, Kirby Auditorium
525 Arch Street
Independence Mall
Philadelphia, PA 19106
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