Mentally Ill In Prisons

The news stories about those being mistreated in asylums are not as public or as rampant as they were fifty years ago either. Conditions in some asylums are still a violation of human rights. Many patients do not have beds due to a lack of funding. They also live in places with feces covering the walls and mice infestations. They are basically living in their own excrement along with other vermin.
The people that were released from the asylums that were shut down did not have proper care or treatment. Due to the lack of treatment in uneducated communities, most of these people were incarcerated. They were being

The issue of imprisonment of the mentally ill has not been solved to this day. Inmates who are mentally ill usually have been convicted of committing a violent crime, such as murder, sexual assault, robbery, or assault Most mentally ill people who are in jail or prison suffer from multiple disorders and are not accepted by other inmates. They usually do not receive the proper treatment while they are incarcerated and most of the prisons they are placed in do not have experience with providing mental health services. …show more content…
They either become very isolated and withdrawn or more violent and unsettled. This leads to them spending more time in prison due to disciplinary records they receive while incarcerated.
After they are released, They end up back right where they started without the treatment necessary to sustain themselves. Mentally ill inmates usually serve three or more sentences in their lifetimes. This is due to the fact that they aren’t receiving the proper care that they require in their communities or even in prisons or