Category results for: Incarceration
Social Work professor investigates psychiatric medication among incarcerated women
Incarcerated women experience mental illness at a disproportionate rate and heavily use psychiatric medication, according to a study by social work faculty Kia J. Bentley.
VCU social work students tour Richmond to explore ‘school-to-prison pipeline’
With Richmond [Re]Visited, social work students seek to understand Richmond’s history and context for issues facing social workers and community members. At Art 180, Marvin Brown, a 22-year-old from Richmond and an advocate with the Rise for Youth Network, told the VCU students how he worked with the incarcerated young people taking part in Performing […]