People with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system - lacking support and information - facing social isolation - UK & US

If the experiences of people with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system could be summed up in two words, those words would be confusion and isolation.

This is the bleak picture which emerges from Hyun et al's (2014) synthesis of research studies which have focused on the experiences of people with learning disabilities who have faced arrest and served time in jail.

There are no reliable estimates of the number of people with learning disabilities in the criminal justice system in any country, though prevalence studies in the UK and the US have consistently shown that they are over-represented and could make up anywhere between 10% and a staggering 60% of the prison population.

Read the full post by Sian Anderson: http://www.thelearningdisabilitieself.net/2015/02/09/people-with-learning-disabilities-in-the-criminal-justice-system-lacked-support-information-and-faced-social-isolation/