20 Jun 2022

Mentally ill people in prison a human rights violation - expert

From Morning Report, 7:39 am on 20 June 2022

A top forensic psychiatrist says psychiatric patients are suffering serious human rights abuses in prisons because there's no room in acute mental health accommodation.

He says the inhumane conditions that people with grave mental illness endure behind bars makes their illness worse.

Naomi Arnold has more.