Mental Illness In Prison

There are approximately 356,000 inmates being held in prison or jail with a mental disorder (Edwin F. Torrey). A mental illness is a condition that involves changes in thinking, emotion, and behavior which affects the way someone may proceed to do things. A criminal is someone who commits a crime that is wrong. There is not enough primary care takers to watch over the mentally ill, as well as treatment plans that could be offered at jails or prisons when there are over 2,000,000 inmates. According to the most updated statistic survey done by the American Hospital Association there are currently about 10 hospital units specifically for prisons. Hospitals directly for the mentally ill to be treated seems to be about 397 that are non-federal. Many healthcare centers are running out of enough primary care providers, people who will take care of people with mental illness, jails and prisons do not receive the proper treatment to care for those incarcerated. …show more content…
Stateline). When there is not enough hospital space to keep mentally ill patients most of them are sent into what is know as a psychiatric boarding, in other terms torture and restraints. Many people with mental illness that are being kept in a psychiatric board are being held in isolations, they are being strapped down and often barely ever receive any treatment, these places do not have the money nor do they have the proper medication. There is not enough facilities, specialists, or caretakers to treat people who suffer with a mental illness (Alan