Voices of NEXUS
A podcast series featuring leading experts discussing and debating questions about mental health for women, youth, and people in contact with the justice system.
Voices of NEXUS
Mental Health and the Justice System: Inside and Outside Incarceration
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Season 1
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Episode 3
An educator in correctional facilities and a mental health advocate discuss why people with serious mental illnesses are more likely to be incarcerated than hospitalized. They emphasize the need for better information exchange between mental health professionals and the justice system, including improved mental health training for judges.
Guests: Susan Lockwood Roberts, EdD, Past President of the Correctional Education Association; and Christopher Seeley, MSW, Program Director of School and Justice Initiatives, American Psychiatric Association Foundation