The Patient-to-Prisoner Pipeline: The IMD Exclusion's Adverse Impact on Mass Incarceration in United States

American Journal of Law & Medicine
Michael E Onah

Abstract

A component of the 1965 Medicaid Act, the Institutions for Mental Diseases ("IMD") Exclusion was supposed to be a remedy for the brutal, dysfunctional mental healthcare system run through state hospitals. In the years since Medicaid was created, the IMD Exclusion has instead barred thousands of those in need of intensive, inpatient treatment from receiving it. As a result, many severely mentally ill individuals are left without adequate care and without a home. They struggle in the street where they are otherized by those in their community and are susceptible to confrontational episodes with law enforcement. Many are ultimately incarcerated, where they are thrust into an abusive environment known to exacerbate mental health issues. This Note's central contention is that the IMD Exclusion creates an access gap for the poorest Americans who suffer from mental illness. Subsequently, prisons and jails fill that gap to the detriment of those individuals. The Note will proceed first by explaining the IMD Exclusion and how it applies to state-run medical care services and facilities. This Note will discuss the nationwide movement, in the 1950s through the 1960s and '70s, to deinstitutionalize notoriously abusive state psychiatric hos...Continue Reading

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May 14, 2019·International Journal of Mental Health Systems·Aish LovettHelen E Jack

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