The MOST significant mental health challenges in prisons are providing care for inmates who are:
a. drug and alcohol abusers
b. retarded or depressed
c. psychotic or suicidal
d. demented or delirious
C
Providing care to psychotic or suicidal inmates are the most significant mental health challenges in prison. The instances of suicide and attempted suicide is of particular concern in county jails and other high turnover correctional facilities. Interestingly, studies have shown that instances of psychosis occur in the prison population at about the same rate as in the outside population.
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