To conclude, there has been a lack of care to those who suffer from mental illness. Asylums have been shut down, and most of the mentally ill have been confined in prison when they deserve to have better care. The Peter Wagner published in Prison Policy Initiative his article of “Incarceration is not a solution to mental illness,” where he informs how unfair the “solution” for mental illness is unfair. On paragraph six, Wagner states, “A variety of different studies were cited by Overby, showing that 40% of families on welfare have a long term functional disability; another that 23% had psychiatric disorders and a third said that 75% had slight to severe mental health problems.” The author, Wagner, is trying to show how many people suffer
