title: The Federal Prisons' Mental Health Program 1930-1985.
abstract: This administrative history study examines the evolution of the Federal Bureau of Prisons Mental Health Program from an initial functional reliance on the medical model to expanded parameters of quasi-scientific behavioral and custodial administrative management of inmates.
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D008605:Mental Health Services / Q000266:history*; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000266:history*; D011330:Prisons; D014481:United States; D014492:United States Public Health Service / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration