Psychiatrists and Solitary Confinement in US Prisons

Associate Professor of Psychiatry in the Law and Psychiatry Division at the Yale University School of Medicine, where her clinical work and scholarship focus on the intersection of mental illness and the criminal justice system. In addition, she serves as Associate Program Director for the Yale forensic psychiatry fellowship, the largest training programme for forensic psychiatrists in the United States. Dr Kapoor is the immediate past president of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and chair of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Judicial Action. She completed residency training in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a forensic psychiatry fellowship at Yale, and medical school at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine.