Inadequate mental health services in prisons fail WA prisoners
A lack of psychologists and mental health nurses in Western Australian prisons means the system is failing to adequately address prisoners’ health needs and some of the root causes of offending, Greens spokesperson for Mental Health and Corrective Services Hon Alison Xamon MLC has said.
Ms Xamon said almost half of prison entrants had a mental health issue.[1]
Despite this, she said, there were now fewer psychologists per prisoner in WA prisons than there were in 2014-15.
