Behind the Scenes of the County Jail

The story of the county prison behind the scenes was suspected of being a crime and arrested by the police. Later, the suspect went to court to face their argument. Classical episodes of law and order. However, these suspects were among the two cases. Of course, they were housed in local prisons. People are familiar with the arrest on television and the circumstances of the court, but many people are unfamiliar with prison circumstances because the place of prison became the home of suspects before the court ruled on his case .

Los Angeles County has already the world's largest prison system. On average, there are 17,500 prisoners in the county prison system. 80% of them are black or Latin American. This county also has the most strict bail bail system in the United States. More than half of the population of Los Angeles County Prison has not been tried yet or sentenced for criminal charges, mainly because people can not pay high bail rates. According to research, people with mental health know inevitably the conditions of prison worsen. For those without a history of mental health problems the possibility of mental health doubles as it is imprisoned

Prisoners and prisons are often referred to as "new shelters" as the severe mental illness is becoming very common in the US correction system. Indeed, Los Angeles County Prison, Chicago Cook County Prison, or New York Riker's Island Prison has more psychiatric patients than any psychiatric hospital remaining in the United States. Overall, it is currently estimated that about 20% of prison sentenced inmates and 15% of state prison inmates suffer from severe psychiatric illness. According to the total population of the prison, this means that about 383,000 people with severe mental illness in the US were imprisoned in 2014. This is about ten times the number of patients remaining at the state hospital in the country.

In 44 states, psychiatric patients are more than psychiatric hospitals with the largest remaining prisons or prisons; in all counties in the US there are county prisons and county psychiatric hospitals, more serious psychiatric patients He was imprisoned without being hospitalized. In the 2004 to 2005 survey, "Psychiatric patients in prisons may be more than three times more likely to be higher than in the hospital." According to a survey conducted in 2009 based on interviews with prisoners in prisons in the states of Maryland and New York, 16.7% of prisoners (14.5% of men, 31% of women) reported severe psychotic symptoms Mental disorder that indicated schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, bipolar disorder, major depression, or transient symptoms) However, 31% of prisoners requested to participate in this study have been dismissed It was. In most cases, people with delusive schizophrenia are included. The interview took place between 2002 and 2006.