Open AccessAdjustment and mental health problem in prisoners
Author(s) -
Sudhinta Sinha
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/0972-6748.90339
Subject(s) - mental health , prison , nonprobability sampling , psychology , psychiatry , population , association (psychology) , scale (ratio) , mental illness , clinical psychology , demography , medicine , environmental health , criminology , sociology , geography , cartography , psychotherapist
"Crime" is increasing day by day in our society not only in India but also all over the world. In turn, the number of prisoners is also increasing at the same rate. They remain imprisoned for a long duration or in some cases for the whole life. Living in a prison for long time becomes difficult for all inmates. So they often face adjustment and mental health problems. Recent findings suggest that mental illness rate in prison is three times higher than in the general population.