http://www.newmatilda.com/policytoolkit/policydetail.asp?PolicyID=235
Jennifer Smith and Anne-Marie Boxall
"Recently, there has been a drift to the use of the prison system in the management of the mentally ill. 'Society could be measured by the way [its] prisoners are treated,' Michael Levy, Director of Centre for Health Research into Criminal Justice, quotes from Winston Churchill, while lamenting the standard of health services in prisons in Australia. In prison different rules apply. This is not the place where harm-minimisation strategies (condoms, needle exchange etc.) find favour. Prison is a dreadful place for someone who is mentally ill, yet those in prison have far higher rates of mental illness than those in the general population."
