Florida Jails Lack Critical Mental Health Services, UCF Ph.D. Candidate Finds
(WorldNews Health)

Orville Clayton, whose dissertation focused on mental health treatments in Florida jails and who will graduate this week. Florida jails lack critical mental health services and treatments for inmates, ultimately posing a risk to the community and the inmate upon release, according to research by a University of Central Florida doctoral student. The problem was identified by Orville Clayton, who graduates this week with a Ph.D. in public affairs in the health services management and research track. As part of his dissertation, he studied the state of mental health services in jails...