Over the past thirty years, prisons have become de facto treatment facilities for thousands of mentally ill individuals. Under-funded, overcrowded, and lacking adequate numbers of mental health personnel, the criminal justice system has failed to meet the treatment needs of its new wards. More>>

A prominent aspect of the response to December’s tsunami has been attention to the mental health needs of survivors. This emphasis continues a trend traceable at least as far back as the early 1990s, when post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was a high-profile concern in the war-torn Balkans. More>>