I am curious as to what procedures people use when evaluating offenders who are mentally ill but have been found guilty of a disciplinary action. The research and general experience is clear that segregation / solitary confinement is not good for the majority of mentally ill offenders. Do you have a process in place to evaluate mentally ill offenders as part of the disciplinary process? Most clinicians seem to have an informal process worked out with the disiciplinary officer / institutional judge; I am looking for a specific process that can consistently be followed to add uniformity and increase interrater reliability among different clinicians in the same system of institutions.
Thank you