Sentences with phrase «closed psychiatric hospital»

The risk of reoffending due to mental illness can tip the scales in the direction of not releasing the offender from a closed psychiatric hospital even if the full prison sentence is served or parole might normally be considered.

When committed to a closed psychiatric hospital for a potentially «indefinite period», judicial checks are mandatory at least every year (or six monthly for those detained under Section 64) to ascertain the suitability of continued commitment.

Closed psychiatric hospitals and mental facilities are far from comfortable places to be kept in, and freedom is removed, but the criminal patient does have access to psychiatric care, medication, and other therapies, instead of being warehoused in a prison where they are far less likely to get adequate care or be rehabilitated.

Not exact matches

New York - Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) is planning to close the psychiatric ward at its Allen Hospital location in Inwood — and the resistance to the decision, is gathering strength.

The governor's proposal — part of a statewide plan to move four children's psychiatric centers into nearby adult facilities and close two adult hospitals — could save an estimated $ 40.8 million in capital improvements at the children's centers, including $ 13.3 million at the local facility.

Other challenges, it said, included special schools, such as schools for the blind and the deaf, which were either closing down or about to do so, subvention not being released to the psychiatric hospital in Accra, nearly all statutory funds being in arrears and a significant number of public sector workers, including nurses and district chief executives employed by the government over a year ago not being paid.

First, the invention of antipsychotic medication in the 1960s led to a movement to close the many psychiatric hospitals then extant.

This was in the mid nineties, after Thatcher's Care in the Community Act, when psychiatric hospitals were being closed down and patients turfed out.

As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Liam, not the death of his mother or his faith in God or the three - years he has spent in a secure psychiatric hospital — all of which can be attributed, in one way or another, to that moment of madness in a cinema queue.

In Harrop v. Markham Stouffville Hospital38 a nurse was dismissed by the hospital after it was learned that she had formed a close personal relationship with a recently discharged psychiatric patient.