Centre for Mental Health

Criminal Justice Resources

All in the mind: Radio 4

All In the Mind talks to Sean Duggan, who used to be a mental health nurse and is now the Director of our Criminal Justice programme.

Listen to this episode of All in the mind from June 2009.

Watch Professor Cheryl Easley's lecture

On 6 July 2009, Professor Cheryl Easley, President of the American Public Health Association and Dean of the University of Alaska, Anchorage, College of Health and Social Welfare gave a lecture for the Centre about prison healthcare and why it's a public health issue.

We have clips from the lecture below.

Lecture Part 1 - Introduction by Angela Greatley

Lecture Part 2 - Cheryl Easley on the US context of criminal justice

Lecture Part 3 - Cheryl Easley on US criminal justice policy

Lecture Part 4 - Cheryl Easley on race, class and poverty and the US criminal justice system

Lecture Part 5 - Cheryl Easley on healthcare in prison, mental illness rates and human rights

Lecture Part 6 - Cheryl Easley's conclusions

Ruth Hussey, Regional Director of Public Health, and SHA Medical Director at NHS North West responded to Professor Easley's lecture by talking about public health and the UK criminal justice system.

Lecture Part 7 - Ruth Hussey's response

Mental Health and Prisons:
Sainsbury Centre Lecture

15 November 2006

The lecture was chaired by Lord David Ramsbotham and given by John Podmore, head of community prisons and transitional facilities at the Home Office and until recently governor of HMP Brixton.

Mr Podmore set out three priorities for action:

• Diversion of offenders with severe mental health problems from prison to more appropriate alternatives;
• Better support for prisoners with a 'dual diagnosis' of substance use and mental ill health; and
• The need to give better care to prisoners with 'lower level but debilitating' mental health problems such as depression.

Download Lecture (Word, 61 KB)