After reading chapter 9, I think I would like to work with mental ill offenders. According to Seiter, “mentally ill inmates are more likely than other inmates to have disciplinary problems while in prison.”(P. 253) I think mental illness in prisons/jail has been a pandemic for criminal justice system in the United States for the past 10 years. Many offenders, who do not come in with mentally ill, will have some kind of illness at the end of their incarceration. That is why I think we should pay more attention to this group of people. We all know that one of the biggest ethical concerns for mentally ill offenders in jail and prison is treatment. Our goal is to help them while they are being punished (as they are serving their time in prison).
