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| Living inside a prison, inmates deal with mental health |
| By thetimes-tribune.com- Joseph Kohut |
| Published: 07/24/2017 |
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A poster of a sunset over water hangs on the wall of an austere room in the depths of the State Correctional Institution at Waymart. “Hope is real, help is real, talk to someone, you can get better,” it reads. For the 11 inmates in maroon jumpsuits seated in a semi-circle, it could be a mantra. All 11 are members of the facility’s mental health peer support network, who serve at the front line of the prison system’s mental illness problem. “These individuals self-disclose as having a mental illness and are in recovery,” said Lynn Patrone, a mental health advocate for the state Department of Corrections. “So they have opened themselves up and have modeled recovery.” Read More. |
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