Forensic Psychology In Prison

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In the psychological community, many psychologist support and agree that rehabilitation should once again become the main focus of the prison system. The clinical issue is that a lot of inmates have some type of mental illness such as psychotic illness, antisocial behavior, depression and much more. While in prison, many inmates do not get a chance to receive the necessary care and treatment that they need in order to help them with their disorder. Once they are released from prison, these inmates, without any help from any type of programs, end up committing crimes again which helps to increase recidivism rates. This newspaper article relates to forensic psychology because in this prison it is enacting many programs which psychologists are

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