BACK TO ARTICLE Why Canada's prisons can't cope with the flood of mentally ill inmates

A better way to treat mentally ill inmates                        5 of 7

(Dave Chan for The Globe and Mail)

Psychiatrist Colin Cameron in the facility's rubber-walled isolation cell. Seventy per cent of those working at the facility are health-care staff, compared with 30 per cent security staff. The ratio is the opposite that of most correctional health-care units. (Caption by Kirk Makin)

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