Growth hormone (GH or HGH), also known as somatotropin or somatropin, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals.It is a type of mitogen which is specific only to certain kinds of cells.rowth hormone (GH or HGH), also known as somatotropin or somatropin, is a peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell reproduction and regeneration in humans and other animals.
While at least half of prisoners have some mental health concerns, about 10 percent to 25 percent of U.S. prisoners suffer from serious mental illnesses, such as major affective disorders or schizophrenia, the report finds.
Texas Prison Facts:  At the end of 1999 -- the latest year figures are available -- Texas led the nation with the largest number of people under criminal justice supervision, with 706,600 people either in prison, on parole or probation.That equals 5 percent of the adult population of the state.The Texas prison population has tripled since 1990, and rose 61.5 percent in the last five years of the 1990s.  The Texas criminal justice system has grown so large that in July 2000, corrections officials ran out of six-digit numbers assigned to inmates, and officially created prisoner number 1,000,000.