Nationwide in America, more than three times as many mentally ill people are housed in prisons and jails as in hospitals. As the years go on the number of mentally ill in prisons are rising. In 1955, there was one bed in a psychiatric ward for every 300 Americans; now there is one for every 3,000 Americans. Mentally ill law offenders are spending time in prison without the right treatments, being easy targets for confrontation with correction officers, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars and are roaming the streets every day posing as danger to society. Some people may argue that mentally ill law offenders belong in jail because “why should someone who is already proven dangerous, be able to run free?” but, they belong in psychiatric hospitals
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Why do they deserve to take the easier way instead of spending time in jail for their actions? For example, criminals like Cocaign deserve to be in jail because of what he had done. He knew exactly what he was doing because he stated that it was a cry for help. He wanted attention and to prove that he was mentally ill by eating his inmate’s body part. Creating new pschiatric mental institutions will cost a lot of money.
In conclusion, mentally ill law offenders don’t deserve to go to jail but, they should be immediately sent to psychiatric hospitals in order to be separated from society. The treatments that they received in prisons are insufficient and are not enough to guarantee that they will be better once they leave the jails. They pose as easy targets for street crime and for assaults by correction officers and they are also costing taxpayers plenty of money in order to keep them in prison. Since implementing new psychiatric hospitals with top notch gear cost a lot of money, every state should take action and investigate their prisons psychiatric facility until they have enough money to put up new psychiatric hospitas. By investigating their prisons, they can find out if the mentally ill are being treated fairly in the
Why do they deserve to take the easier way instead of spending time in jail for their actions? For example, criminals like Cocaign deserve to be in jail because of what he had done. He knew exactly what he was doing because he stated that it was a cry for help. He wanted attention and to prove that he was mentally ill by eating his inmate’s body part. Creating new pschiatric mental institutions will cost a lot of money.
In conclusion, mentally ill law offenders don’t deserve to go to jail but, they should be immediately sent to psychiatric hospitals in order to be separated from society. The treatments that they received in prisons are insufficient and are not enough to guarantee that they will be better once they leave the jails. They pose as easy targets for street crime and for assaults by correction officers and they are also costing taxpayers plenty of money in order to keep them in prison. Since implementing new psychiatric hospitals with top notch gear cost a lot of money, every state should take action and investigate their prisons psychiatric facility until they have enough money to put up new psychiatric hospitas. By investigating their prisons, they can find out if the mentally ill are being treated fairly in the