{"id":6626,"date":"2025-09-15T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prisonersadvice.org.uk\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T10:30:33","slug":"unacceptable-delays-in-the-treatment-of-severely-mentally-unwell-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/09\/15\/unacceptable-delays-in-the-treatment-of-severely-mentally-unwell-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0\u2018UNACCEPTABLE DELAYS\u2019 IN THE TREATMENT OF SEVERELY MENTALLY UNWELL PRISONERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Annual reports from the Independent Monitoring Boards at HMP\u2019s Downview &#8211; a public-sector women\u2019s prison &#8211; and Oakwood &#8211; a privately run male prison &#8211; have expressed serious concerns over \u2018unacceptable delays\u2019 in the treatment of severely mentally unwell prisoners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The IMBs at both prisons maintained that the stipulated 28-day timeframe between the referral of severely mentally unwell prisoners and their safe transfer to community mental health units was not being achieved &#8211; meaning that seriously ill people were held in unsatisfactory and distressing conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emma Wilson, Chair of the IMB at HMP Downview, commented:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2018The general public would be shocked to learn that there are many mentally unwell women who should not be detained in a prison environment. It is a shameful indictment of our mental health system to see the punitive and unsuitable conditions in which these women are held.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For further information,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/insidetime.org\/newsround\/watchdogs-warn-of-unacceptable-delays-for-mentally-unwell-prisoners\/\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annual reports from the Independent Monitoring Boards at HMP\u2019s Downview &#8211; a public-sector women\u2019s prison &#8211; and Oakwood &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Ben","author_link":"https:\/\/prisonersadvice.org.uk\/wordpress\/author\/ben\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Annual reports from the Independent Monitoring Boards at HMP\u2019s Downview &#8211; 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