The Mentally Ill Locked Up In Jail?

Since mid-20th century people with mental illnesses have been sent to jail instead of receiving appropriate treatment. These patients not only increase their own safety but also increase the safety of the surrounding people, so they should be able to receive treatment and care. Every year, non-violent people are imprisoned for crimes that are mental illness and do not threaten the security of others. Therefore, 25-30% of prisoners suffer from psychosis (McClealland 16). In order to prevent this from occurring, at least one criterion of most jurisdictions can reflect whether a person poses a danger to himself or to others.

Prior to the 1900's, psychiatric patients were jailed and often abused. The aim of society is to hide mentally disabled people from the public eye, and many of the mentally disabled people have lived in these prisons and slums for decades, sometimes for decades. Priest Ruid Wait discovered a mental patient who was detained in Boston Prison for 9 years. He pointed out that the situation is bad and found that the prisoner was irregular and "sleeping on the mountain of dirty hay". In the 1900's, this treatment was considered inhumane and the state hospital was opened nationwide.

Perhaps more than ever, attention to the care and treatment of psychiatric patients in prisons and prisons is a matter of public security / public health. If someone leaves the prison or prison and the proportion of psychosis and drug abuse disorders is too high, time will encourage paradigm shift. Timely fun!

16 Most of the people in local prisons are those diagnosed with mental illness. The incidence of mental illness in the prison is 4 to 6 times higher than outside. In a study of more than 1,000 prisoners, more than 14% of men and over 30% of women entered prisons and found that prisons suffer from severe psychosis. According to a recent survey by New York Rikers Island Prison, there were 4,000 prisoners, 40% of them had mental disorders. In many of our cities, local prisons are the ultimate home for severe mentally ill patients. However, there are few treatments for mental illness in prison.

No one believes that prisons can help recovery from psychosis, even though prisons are taking psychiatry for the many who need it. Studies involving reports from the City Institute have found that prison psychiatric patients have received far more attacks than those without psychosis. "Prison is a prison," said Tony Carter, Commissioner of Ramsey County, Minnesota and Chairman of the Human Services and Education Policy Steering Committee of the National State Association. "It is not mental health care ... generally, they are worse than entering.