A legal history of mental health and disability discrimination in the criminal justice system -- Mental health and disability law overview -- Criminal incompetency -- Insanity and diminished culpability -- Dangerousness in the criminal law -- Jails, prisons, and secure "treatment" facilities: conditions of confinement and release -- Admissibility of expert evidence and testimony -- Mental health diagnoses and assessments -- Criminal incompetency -- Evidence of insanity and diminished culpability -- Dangerousness to others and self -- Care and treatment of inmates -- Disability discrimination involving inmates in corrections facilities.
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