Mental illness has been increasing in prions and jails in the past decade, as shown by, "more than half of all prison and jail inmates have a mental health problem compared with 11 percent of the general population".(Anasseril) The problem is they are not receiving the help necessary to achieve a normalized life. "Yet only one in three prison inmates and one in six jail inmates receive any form of mental health treatment." (Anasseril) . This illustrates that point that an abundance of the mentally ill are being accused and condemned as prisoners, without even being giving the chance with help. Mental illness in prisoners is an essential focus for reforming prisoners so that they can go into society. When prisoners are left to deal with their
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Today the incoming rate of prisoners has increased immensely, including suicide rates and drug/alcohol addiction. Many of the ways that the patients are diagnosed and treated do not help there case but most are found to worsen the illnesses. This includes one infamous case, the John Salvi case. The way of processing and treating mentally ill in jails has extreme effects on the prisoner and their outside world personas. This treatment by prisons and jails leads to a rise in recidivism rates among the mentally ill.
As prisoners are being incarcerated the rates of the mental illness are increasing. This amount of mentally ill effects the recidivism rates and the after prison suicide rates. As they cycle through the prison system they are not being treated to the fullest needed extent and are instead committing suicide both in and out of the prison setting. The mental health staff at hospitals are being blamed for every suicide and every wrong action done by a mentally ill prisoner. They are not given the correct support needed to support these …show more content…
Unlike the supporters they state no advantages or disadvantages of removing the ill from the institutes and placing them in jails. When mental institutes are put up in their neighborhoods it causes a lack of properness in their towns.They have no need to deal with them unless they are physically harming someone to where they can prosecute, or messing up their ideal image of a neighborhood. They developed "Not In My Backyard syndrome", and begin to push for the removal of prisoners. (Mentally Ill Offenders).There were so many people that had relied on the institutes for help, that when they began to wonder on their own they went to local places. These local organizations by far did not have the means or funds to take care of al, of them, so once again they were forced to be on their own. This led to "growing numbers of released patients drifted toward life on the streets and many of the mentally ill have ended up exchanging hospitalization for institutionalization in prison or jail."(Mentally Ill Offenders) It shows how many people look upon the mentally ill with disgust, causing them to want to ignore their situations. This means that mental institutions will be taken away and the patients will be forced to figure everything out on their own. This causes an increases amount of homeless and mentally ill on the street. In
Today the incoming rate of prisoners has increased immensely, including suicide rates and drug/alcohol addiction. Many of the ways that the patients are diagnosed and treated do not help there case but most are found to worsen the illnesses. This includes one infamous case, the John Salvi case. The way of processing and treating mentally ill in jails has extreme effects on the prisoner and their outside world personas. This treatment by prisons and jails leads to a rise in recidivism rates among the mentally ill.
As prisoners are being incarcerated the rates of the mental illness are increasing. This amount of mentally ill effects the recidivism rates and the after prison suicide rates. As they cycle through the prison system they are not being treated to the fullest needed extent and are instead committing suicide both in and out of the prison setting. The mental health staff at hospitals are being blamed for every suicide and every wrong action done by a mentally ill prisoner. They are not given the correct support needed to support these …show more content…
Unlike the supporters they state no advantages or disadvantages of removing the ill from the institutes and placing them in jails. When mental institutes are put up in their neighborhoods it causes a lack of properness in their towns.They have no need to deal with them unless they are physically harming someone to where they can prosecute, or messing up their ideal image of a neighborhood. They developed "Not In My Backyard syndrome", and begin to push for the removal of prisoners. (Mentally Ill Offenders).There were so many people that had relied on the institutes for help, that when they began to wonder on their own they went to local places. These local organizations by far did not have the means or funds to take care of al, of them, so once again they were forced to be on their own. This led to "growing numbers of released patients drifted toward life on the streets and many of the mentally ill have ended up exchanging hospitalization for institutionalization in prison or jail."(Mentally Ill Offenders) It shows how many people look upon the mentally ill with disgust, causing them to want to ignore their situations. This means that mental institutions will be taken away and the patients will be forced to figure everything out on their own. This causes an increases amount of homeless and mentally ill on the street. In