Psychotic prisoners differed from psychotic persons in households in having demographic features and associated psychopathology, such as personality disorder
Although most persons with psychosis in the household population had received inpatient psychiatric treatment, few psychotic prisoners had been inpatients and only a minority were receiving any help
Psychotic prisoners differed in having had more adverse experiences over the lifetime than nonpsychotic prisoners
The study suggested that proposals to divert more offenders with severe mental illness to mental health services in England and Wales may currently be unfeasible highly difficult to manage in a therapeutic setting