Candidate Name: Sarah Walansky Candidate Number: 1398 Centre Number: US799 Somerset Academy Canyons April 2024 Component 2 – Research Paper Question: Is enough being done concerning the mental health of prisoners around the world? Word Count: 1881.
Is enough being done concerning the mental health of prisoners around the world? Prisoners struggle with mental health daily when incarcerated, some feel prisons should help those in need with treatment, and others feel they need to be left to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Prisoners around the world are being treated unfairly and abused in mental health institutions. When they begin to suffer or have a manic attack instead of being treated by a doctor, they are subjected to abuse and are commonly sent to solitary confinement, which ends up making their …show more content…
Although prisoners have put themselves in the position of being in harsh conditions as well as other prisoners, they are still people who need help just like common men and women who suffer from mental disorders. People who are not in prison struggle daily with mental health and willingly go to therapy and take medication for those issues to get better. Prisoners are the same as everyday people; they are only put into different conditions due to their actions in life. Prisoners can be manic or demented and while in treatment they can lash out and hurt the attending therapist or fellow prisoners. This brings a conflicted decision to help a severely mentally ill person while in need, which could end up putting another person in life-threatening danger. It should be discussed if the prisoners should be left to suffer and be wrongly treated by the guards in prison. Or should treatment plans, including therapy, be put in place to help the prisoners get the help they need? Over many years, prisoners are known to be misunderstood in many ways. People only have in mind that prisoners are terrible people and don’t think
Is enough being done concerning the mental health of prisoners around the world? Prisoners struggle with mental health daily when incarcerated, some feel prisons should help those in need with treatment, and others feel they need to be left to deal with the consequences of their own actions. Prisoners around the world are being treated unfairly and abused in mental health institutions. When they begin to suffer or have a manic attack instead of being treated by a doctor, they are subjected to abuse and are commonly sent to solitary confinement, which ends up making their …show more content…
Although prisoners have put themselves in the position of being in harsh conditions as well as other prisoners, they are still people who need help just like common men and women who suffer from mental disorders. People who are not in prison struggle daily with mental health and willingly go to therapy and take medication for those issues to get better. Prisoners are the same as everyday people; they are only put into different conditions due to their actions in life. Prisoners can be manic or demented and while in treatment they can lash out and hurt the attending therapist or fellow prisoners. This brings a conflicted decision to help a severely mentally ill person while in need, which could end up putting another person in life-threatening danger. It should be discussed if the prisoners should be left to suffer and be wrongly treated by the guards in prison. Or should treatment plans, including therapy, be put in place to help the prisoners get the help they need? Over many years, prisoners are known to be misunderstood in many ways. People only have in mind that prisoners are terrible people and don’t think