Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Mon 31 AugPAPER

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LAWS GOVERNING THE CARE OF PEOPLE WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

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A correctional or forensic clinician can use this to find out what their own state actually permits — which segregation restrictions, exclusion criteria, and review requirements apply where they practise — without assembling the codes themselves. It does not change what the clinician must do, nor what an evaluator can defensibly assert; its value is as a reference work and an advocacy tool.

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 2026.