Mental Health and the Carceral System with Dr. Nathaniel Morris
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We reached out to Dr. Nathaniel Morris after reading his recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine; Injustice Disorder. Dr. Morris is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and provides care to incarcerated patients in the San Francisco jail system. He has published numerous journal articles on mental health care in jails and prisons, the criminalization of people with mental illness and addiction, and other topics in psychiatry and the law. Other publications include; Cell Front: The House Calls of Mass Incarceration in Annals of Internal Medicine; From Crime to Care - On the Front Lines of Decarceration in NEJM; and Addressing Shortages of Mental Health Care Professionals in U.S. Jails and Prisons in the Journal of Correctional Health Care.
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