Abstract
The Division of Legal Medicine of the Massachusetts Depart ment of Mental Health provides psychiatric diagnosis and treat ment for 10 per cent of the state prison population; clinics covering 25 per cent of the state's district courts; parole treatment services; consultation, diagnostic, and treatment services in a half dozen juvenile institutions; several extended research programs; and training services for prison guards, probation and parole officers, psychiatric social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists with special interests in this area. This report describes the following major elements in the development of this program: (1) the special place of the sex offender law as the impetus for services, (2) problems of initiating the services and their stage-by- stage development, (3) the court clinics, (4) the prison clinics, (5) training problems, (6) parole, and (7) the Youth Service Board.
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