Richard Morgan, DO, lay on the floor of a Long Island, New York, jail cell in May 2007, wearing the suit he’d put on to go to work that day. An addiction to opiates, sparked by a prescription after dental surgery as a medical student and fed by writing his own painkiller prescriptions over years, […]
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Prisons and asylums prove architecture can build up or break down a person’s mental health
Anyone who has witnessed conditions in the UK’s prisons – whether on television or in person – could not fail to be alarmed by the violence, despair and mental distress experienced by staff and prisoners. In the current chaos of the prison environment, caused in part by staff recruitment and retention problems, growing numbers of […]