Case Study Of Jane Doe

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Based on the pre-sentencing report about the offender Jane Doe, not only is she a risk to herself but to other who associated with her from family to friends. Jane Doe has a nasty drug substance abuse that doesn’t get the necessary treatment she would most like overdose herself. Jane Doe believe that she doesn’t have a problem with drug substance therefore she constantly ignored the consequences of her action. She failed to realize that her 5 and 3years old daughters are suffer the most from her drug addiction because they don’t have a mother who supposed to nurture and take care of them. Jane has 3 major problems that she is facing such as substance abuse, behavior /mental issues and financial/parent skill problem. My job as her probation …show more content…

Women offenders experience a variety of mental health issues, commonly including depression and anxiety (NICIS). Studies has indicated that women in drug treatment program also tend to reporting mental health issues like physiological distress and posttraumatic stress disorder that cosign with their substance abuse. Hopeful the therapeutic community drug treatment in a way will influence Doe to admit not only she has an substance abuse problem but need help for help poor impulse control. Just like there is a drug treatment in the detention center, offender like Doe are eligible to receive various treatments for their mental health issues. Three reasons for providing mental health treatment in correctional setting: 1. to reduce the disabling effects of serious mental illness and maximize each inmate’s ability to voluntarily participate in correctional programs. 2. to decrease needless human suffering caused by mental illness. 3. To help keep prison staff, inmates, volunteers and visitors safe (NICIS). Correctional residences like the detention center are where most mental ill offender are located at since there aren’t that place where to place these mentally ill offender because of state’s budget

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