ABSTRACT

Correctional psychiatry refers to the practice of psychiatry in the correctional setting, including lock-ups, jails, detention centers, juvenile correctional institutions, prisons, and community corrections programs. Historically, correctional psychiatrists have engaged in treatment and rehabilitation of prisoners (Travin 1994). Prisoners with legally recognized emotional or mental disorders have been identied as mentally disordered oenders. Certain mentally disordered oenders, however, are not in the custody of a correctional institution (Halleck 1987; Wettstein 1998). is chapter focuses on the historical development of correctional psychiatry in the United States.