Although the Bureau of Prisons changed its rules, officials
did not add the resources needed to implement them, creating an incentive for
employees to downgrade inmates to lower care levels. BOP confirms that
mental-health staffing has not increased since the policy took
effect. “You doubled the workload and kept the resources the same. You
don’t have to be Einstein to see how that’s going to work,” said a former
Bureau of Prisons psychologist. The bureau said it is “developing a
strategy” to analyze the drop in mental-health care, consistent with a
Justice Department inspector general’s recommendation last year. Although only
a small fraction of federal inmates are deemed ill enough to merit regular
therapy, 23 percent have been diagnosed with some mental illness.
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