Tag Archive for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Science Shows Just How Traumatizing It is to Separate Kids from Parents at the US-Mexico Border – Quartz
Mental health professionals worry about the potential consequences of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) policy of separating children from parents caught illegally crossing the border. Read more.

Information on Inmates with Serious Mental Illness and Strategies to Reduce Recidivism- Government Accountability Office
About two-thirds of inmates with a serious mental illness in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) were incarcerated for four types of offenses—drug (23 percent), sex offenses (18 percent), weapons and explosives…