There are some people out there who think that the correlation of deinstitutionalization and the rise in the mental health issues in prison is just a coincidence. Similar to how in some prisons they are required to have hours of training to deal with the mentally ill. All new hires received sixty hours of mental-illness treatment training. Police officers cannot simply be guards anymore the guards now have to be doctors, nurses, and a social worker (Ford). In certain prisons where the mentally ill population outweighs the ‘normal’ population, the guards have sensitivity training to deal with and interact with the mentally ill prisoners. Deinstitutionalization has only worked because of the political strings people have to pull to get away
