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When you add in the toll on families,
schools, and emergency medical care, the long term costs of cutting mental
health far outweigh any short term 'savings., On June 13 and 14, 2005, the
American Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (AAFCP) will
host "The National Debate on Prisons + Punishment" in Alexandria, Virginia.S. John L.

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The full report is on-line at
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For more information and to register, please visit http://www.aacfp .

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Additional costs are shifted to other sectors of
society, such as law enforcement, education, and emergency rooms.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Wilkinson has worked for over 30 years in various prison
systems.

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The debate is intended to open up discussions between corrections
professionals, reformers, scholars, civil rights groups, crime victims, and
the general public regarding public policies surrounding the U.

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More than half a million Ohioans are affected by potentially disabling
mental illnesses every year. "I see the long term costs of insufficient
mental health care services every day. WILMINGTON, N.

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* Employment: Every Ohioan must have the opportunity to fully participate
in their community and should be supported and encouraged to find and
maintain employment.

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* Investment in Core Services: Ohio must fulfill its promise to fully fund
the community mental health care system.

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The report recommends:

* Mental health parity: Ohio must join 35 other states and pass a mental
health parity law to end discrimination in insurance coverage for
treatment of mental illnesses.

* Child Custody: Parents of children living with mental illness must not
be forced to give up custody of their children in order to get
treatment and services.

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The legislature should support
the Governor's current mental health budget . Gannon, President of the American Association for
Correctional and Forensic Psychology, "The Debate was formulated with the hope
that people with disparate interest and goals in corrections will have a forum
to examine their differences.

The American Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (AACFP)
is an organization of behavioral scientists and practitioners who are
concerned with the delivery of high-quality mental health services to criminal
offenders, and with promoting and disseminating research on the etiology,
assessment, and treatment of criminal behavior.

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system and its role within the community at large.
Among the topics that the panels will address during the moderated debates
are whether longer sentences are effective, the pros and cons of self -
monitoring, the pros and cons of prison privatization, reform programs that
work, whether prisons are helping ethnic communities, and whether a major goal
of prisons should be preparing criminal offenders for re-entry back into
communities and what communities need to support these programs .

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* Housing: Safe and affordable housing options are essential to ensure
recovery.

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Other speakers include Rep.
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Bill McCollum (Former Chairman of the Crime
Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee); Todd Clear (John Jay College of
Criminal Justice, New York, NY); Marc Mauer (The Sentencing Project,
Washington , DC); Bo Lozoff (Human Kindness Foundation, Durham, NC); Stephen
Nathan (Prison Privatization Report Int. Kay Kahn (House of
Representatives, Boston, MA) and Paul Wright (Prison Legal News, Seattle , WA).

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"Ohio is facing an acute financial crisis, but people living with serious
mental illness must have access to services and treatment," said Terry
Russell, Executive Director, NAMI Ohio
Untreated mental illness costs the nation more than $100 billion annually
in lost productivity . Wilkinson, Director of the
Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, past President of the
American Correctional Association, and a leading proponent of a balanced,
progressive approach to corrections -- both within the prison system and in
the community.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio, Ohio leaders of the National
Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) and partners from the state's law
enforcement , medical, education and social service communities have released a
new report with recommendations to reduce costs from untreated mental illness.

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"As Ohio's leaders work to balance the budget , they may be tempted to
slash spending on mental health care, but that would be a huge mistake," said
Clark County Sheriff Gene Kelley."
"People with mental illness being shunted to the courts , the juvenile
justice system, jail and prison.

Corrections Professionals and Reformers Debate Effects of Public Policies on U.S. Prisons and Punishment

, Greenwich, England); Alex Tabarrok
(The Independent Institute, Oakland, CA); Elizabeth Alexander (ACLU National
Prison Project, New York, NY); Don Specter (Prison Law Office, San Quentin,
CA); Jenni Gainsborough (Prison Reform International, Washington , DC); Greg
Kane (Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD); Ken Kopcyzinski (Private Corrections
Institute , Tallahassee, FL); Ed Kropp (Institute for Global Ethics, Camden,
ME); Mary Livers (Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional
Services, Baltimore, MD); Patricia Muldoon (League of Women Voters , Boston,
MA); Peggy Ritchie (National Institute of Corrections, Longmont, CO); Julie
Stewart (Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Washington, DC); Peter Wagner
(Prison Policy Initiative, Northampton , MA); Lester Welch (Sex Offender
Treatment Alliance, Okemos, MI); State Rep.

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* Access to Medications: Doctors must continue to be allowed to rely on
breakthroughs in medical science and treat mentally disabled people
without bureaucratic restrictions on access to life-saving medications.org.org.

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For more information about
AAFCP, please visit http http://www.

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Even if they leave without changing their minds
on the issues, perhaps they'll have a better understanding of the issues from
the other sides' perspective, which seems a laudable goal in and of itself.