Honolulu Civil Beat | A concerning trend in Hawaii prisons: Hawaii News Now Sunrise @civilbeat | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
Hawaii’s correctional system has to cope with some of the sickest mentally ill people in the state, and it’s grappling with a shortage of psychologists, as Chad Blair told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
This shortage reportedly left some inmates stranded on suicide watch at the women’s prison in Kailua this summer. And in June, the system recorded its seventh known suicide since 2022.
Reporter Kevin Dayton digs deep into what’s behind this alarming rate of departure by psychologists shortcomings of our mental health system for folks behind bars: civilbeat.org/2024/10/hawaiis-prison-system-confronts-a-huge-mental-health-crisis
Hawaii’s correctional system has to cope with some of the sickest mentally ill people in the state, and it’s grappling with a shortage of psychologists, as Chad Blair told Hawaii News Now Sunrise.
This shortage reportedly left some inmates stranded on suicide watch at the women’s prison in Kailua this summer. And in June, the system recorded its seventh known suicide since 2022.
Reporter Kevin Dayton digs deep into what’s behind this alarming rate of departure by psychologists shortcomings of our mental health system for folks behind bars: civilbeat.org/2024/10/hawaiis-prison-system-confronts-a-huge-mental-health-crisis
