• Psychiatr Serv · Apr 2012

    Diversion of patients with mental illness from court-ordered care to immigration detention.

    • Homer Venters and Allen S Keller.
    • Center for Health and Human Rights, Division of General Internal Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA. homer.venters@nyumc.org
    • Psychiatr Serv. 2012 Apr 1; 63 (4): 377-9.

    AbstractOver 350,000 immigrants are detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) each year. An unknown fraction of these detainees have serious mental illnesses and are taken into ICE custody even though a criminal court has ordered them to enter inpatient mental health care. The authors report findings from 16 such cases in which they have provided advocacy over the past four years. In some cases, they were able to secure release of detainees into inpatient care in community (nonforensic) settings, which involved substantial logistical challenges. Given the well-documented concerns about securing adequate care for ICE detainees with mental illness, a logical policy change would be for ICE to allow these patients to enter court-ordered inpatient care. This move would improve care for patients and would also unburden ICE from the untenable proposition of caring for patients that the criminal justice system has deemed unfit for incarceration.

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