More and more women admitted to federal custody have very high rates of mental health difficulty. At this point, about 30% come in with a diagnosis, and the expectation would be that this would continue at that rate, or increase as our population increases.
We're already very well positioned with my interdisciplinary team to assess, treat, and offer services to these women. We're pre-positioning ourselves by establishing pools of qualified staff, and also reaching out to those hard-to-recruit staff, so that as our numbers increase we have the staff we need to deliver the services.