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Justice - Mental Health & Disabilities

Bennett Brook Disability Justice Centre

Bennett Brook Disability Justice Centre: Supreme Court Injunction (Hon Alison Xamon MLC, Member for North Metropolitan Region) - 08 August 2019

Bennett Brook Disability Justice Centre: The facts (Department of Communities) 2016

Disability justice centre finally opens for mentally-impaired accused in Western Australia (ABC News) - 04 August 2015

Escapes spark security boost at Bennett Brook Disability Justice Centre (ABC News) - 11 May 2016

State pays $4.5 million a year for secure facility housing two people (WA Today) - 19 November 2018

Disabilities in the Justice System

Behind Closed Doors (People with Disabilities WA) - 13 July 2015

Human Rights Watch: Research on Prisoners with Disabilities (Department of Corrective Services) - 03 February 2018

Operational Instruction 10: Prisoners With Disabilities (Department of Corrective Services) - 21 October 2010

I Needed Help, Instead I Was Punished (Human Rights Watch) - February 2018

The Experiences and Needs of Repeat Offenders with Intellectual Disability in Western Australia (Activ Foundation) - 01 September 2005

Facilities

Bennett Brook Disability Justice Centre

Legislation

Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996

Mental Health Act 2014

Mental Health Act 1996 (repealed)

Mental Health (Consequential Provisions) Act 1996 (repealed)

Media Articles

Australian mental health articles

International mental health articles

Mental Health Court

WA's new mental health court will offer a tender touch (Perth Now) - 09 March 2013

Mental Health in the Justice System

Fact sheet: Mental illness and serious crime (NSW Mental Health Review Tribunal) - September 2015

Government reports and credible articles

People with mental health disorders and cognitive impairment in the criminal justice system: Cost-benefit analysis of early support and diversion (Australian Human Rights Commission & University of New South Wales) - August 2013

Programs and services that assist people with disability in the criminal justice system (Australian Human Rights Commission) - 03 March 2014

Reports

Crimes (Mental Impairment) projects and reports (Victorian Law Reform Commission)

Indefinite detention of people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment in Australia (2016): Chapter 2 - Forensic or criminal orders—statistics, legislation and reviews (Parliament of Australia: Former Senate Committees)

Mentally impaired accused on ‘custody orders’, Not guilty, but incarcerated indefinitely (Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services) - April 2014

Prisoner Access to Secure Mental Health Treatment (Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services) - September 2018

Review of the Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Accused) Act 1996 Final Report (Department of the Attorney General) - April 2016

Royal Commissions & Inquiries

Royal Commission to inquire into and report upon the arrest on a charge of insanity, committal to and detention in the hospital for the insane at Claremont of Georgina and Thomas Mable (1921)

Report and Appendices of the Royal Commission in Lunacy (1922)

Report of the Royal Commission on Claremont Hospital for the Insane (1937)

Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into The Heathcote Mental Reception Home and the Administration of Mental Hospitals generally (1938)

Self Harm

Prison study reveals high rate of self-harm after release and mental health failures (The Guardian Australia) - 11 March 2017

Women Offenders

Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Women Offenders (Barbara Bloom, Department of Criminal Justice Administration & Stephanie Covington, Center for Gender and Justice) - 11 June 2009

Young Offenders

Assessment of Mental Health Issues With Young Offenders (Dr Chris Lennings, University of Sydney) - 1 December 2003

For detained youths, no mental health overseer (The New York Times) - 10 February 2010

Mental health problems among young people on remand: has anything changed since 1989? (Wiley Online Library) - 2010)

Youth Mental Health: Youth Forensic Services (Productivity Commision) - 11 September 2014

Resources

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