Problems at the Washtenaw County Jail

The problems I saw at Washtenaw County Prison were: 1) hostility embodied in imprisoned women 2) only one hour free time for prisoners when prisoners are in prison safe place the mind is influenced 3) The released prisoner must be convinced of the social dishonor faced when he is in prison. These three questions influenced me during our classes or out of class. In addition, all issues address privilege and oppression.

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

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.

In New York, schizophrenic patients were sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for 15 years during solitary confinement. A man with schizophrenia pierced my cellular phone with a pencil in Minnesota's prison. According to a survey of 132 attempts to attempted suicide attempts at Washington County Prison, 77% of those were suffering from "chronic psychosis", while the other prison population was 15%. In countries where psychiatric patients are frequently imprisoned rather than being treated, such incidents are too common. According to the treatment advocacy center report, including the above anecdotes, in the US prison of 2012 there were estimated 356,268 prisoners of severe mental illness. This is equivalent to the population of Anchorage, Alaska or Trenton, New Jersey. This number is more than 10 times the number of mentally disabled people in the same year's National Psychiatric Hospital, about 35,000 people.