Nearly all Denver jail inmates in high-risk unit have brain trauma
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Neurological researchers from the University of Denver expected to find an above-average prevalence of brain trauma at the Downtown Detention Center. But the results were high enough to shock them.
Nearly every inmate screened — 96 percent — had a traumatic brain injury. That’s significantly higher than national statistics showing from 67 percent to 80 percent of inmates in jails and prisons have a traumatic brain injury, and far higher than the estimated 6 percent to 8.5 percent of the general population. Click here to read the whole article
