New research from non-profit newsroom CalMatters shows that the California prison system on average moves people with significant mental health diagnoses 5 times during the same time period that people in the general prison population were transferred just 1.5 times. The article, titled, Mentally ill prisoners in California are three times likelier to get shuffled around, is the latest in a 6-part investigative series on mental healthcare in the state. We speak with Byrhonda Lyons, one of the contributors to the series about the transfers and their impact both on prisoners themselves as well as their families, including the tragic suicides of some prisoners.

Read the CalMatters article here: https://calmatters.org/justice/2022/11/california-mentally-ill-prisoner-transfers/

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