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Mentally ill should be placed in a prison population of the mainstream?

Chances are if you have ever had – if any – think about this question. Paranoid schizophrenic is someone to kill, because the voices in his head, tell them that people outside of trying to steal his brain. Safe in a prison or a schizophrenic? Other prisoners are (or her) is there with them?

A person with bipolar disorder suffer from a severe attack of acute mania clothes during an armload shoplifts. He or she is sent to prison, the gangbangers, rapists, and murderers, with the co-existence. Or, perhaps worse, with no human contact in a solitary cell for 23 to 24 out of every hour. Changes of acute mania in severe depression. What is the likelihood he or she will survive a prison term?

Statistics of US Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Mother, approximately 300,000 prisoners in 1998 had some form of mental illness. A decade later, that number was 1.25 million.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) says that 16 percent of the prison population can be classified as seriously mentally ill. This means that they have schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression as a mental illness to fit the classification. However, as a percentage of 50 percent, while the anti-social personality disorder like other mental illnesses, and borderline personality disorder include a high conversion skyrockets.

There are two main reasons for the rise of mentally ill prisoners feature:
# “Deinstitutionalization” – shut down the whole process of mental hospitals. This began in 1950 but in 1980, has gained strong momentum.

In 1950, US 600,000 of those suffering from any mental illness was a state run hospital beds. Deinstitutionalization and simultaneously cutting the state and federal funds, US now 40,000 empty beds for the mentally ill. Our inability to get proper treatment for this vulnerable population, this segment of the left and, consequently, they are now a number of prison land.
# The second issue is the implementation of tougher punishment laws in 1980 and 1990. This is especially, and our “war on drugs” with the arrival of the following is true. Mental illness and a higher rate than the general population of people who abuse prescription drugs. He was also caught with the possibility of arrest and imprisonment.

Deinstitutionalization has not worked. Another organization – from the prison hospital for the mentally ill, all managed to shift it. We have made it a crime to be mentally ill.

US’s largest psychiatric facility in a hospital not a prison. Any time at Rikers Island in New York City is home to approximately 3,000 mentally ill prisoners. The average inmate population on Rikers Island is 14,000. At the end of each 4 to 5 prisoners outside the prison suffer from mental illness.

Florida Judge Steven Leifman, for the eleventh judicial circuit of the Mental Health Committee Chair, says, “The sad irony is we were not deinstitutionalize, we reinstitutionalized – of horrible horrible state mental hospitals in the state prison. We do not provide a mental We treat the sick in prison.’re just warehousing them. ”

What is the amount of, a violent prison system with the mentally ill in a psychiatric consultation is available?

State prison, the mentally ill for 15 months on average longer than the average inmate serves. Nature is the most mental illnesses, it makes it difficult to follow prison rules. The prisoners are likely to be more involved in prison fight, and they tend to collect more conduct violations.

Mentally ill prisoners have been sentenced to prison staff, often disruptive, to refuse to comply with the order, but the suicide attempt. In other words, the prisoners are punished for exhibiting symptoms of their illness.

Gaining even more difficult for mentally ill parole. His disciplinary record is spotty, they are willing or able to help a family, and community services to be generally inadequate.

US Prisons and offenders with mental illness: October, 2003, entitled Human Rights released a report, see the ill equipped. Two years later, in depth research, the institute found that some mental health care services in prison is enough. In addition, it was found that the prison environment due to its dangerous and mentally ill.

Ill equipped excerpt from:

warehouse for the mentally ill in the penal network is thus not as a service, but the mentally ill prisoners on housing for very restricted., it is acting as an incubator for worse illness and psychiatric breakdowns. ”

He states that, “His behavior disorders in the criminal justice system know that a whole host of the land.”

Which mainly affect the coastal community. These people are almost always poor and disabled by their illness. They are not going anywhere, no one helps them, and so we won them in prison. Even minor crimes to keep them locked in the prisons, because many can not afford and / or does not know how to make himself out a bond.

Among the mentally ill among the prison population recidivism rate higher than normal. Revolving door prison system has to deal with mental illness. By default, the prison became the new mental hospitals. However, they lack the funding and training the patient to deal with prisoners.

Ratan Bhavnani, mental illness Ventura County Chapter of the National Alliance executive director, says that, “Usually, when appropriate place to treat people with mental illness to be retrieved and sent to prison, only to become more mentally and come back and reoffend. ”

Jung Michael Ventura, California suffers from bipolar and he said that he heard voices of Satan. Jung in the last 10 years has been arrested at least 15 times – for a relatively minor crimes. Earlier this year, Quad G. Jung six weeks, the unit where the mentally ill prisoners in their cells 24 hours each day was limited to 23 to stay out.

Such cells in the G Quad rubber “room” is known as the padded walls. There is no furniture in the room. The “toilet” is a grate in the floor. They are hard to break and monitored by video cameras. Prisoners of the Paranoid, delusional, or is otherwise difficult to manage are often placed in this type of cell, whether in their own protection, the safety of other prisoners, or are just plain convenience.

Susan Abril, a former inmate who suffers from bipolar disorder, was placed in a cell of this type. During his confinement, Abril was first started hearing voices. “I do not sleep,” he said. “I was mad to stay mentally locked down 24 to 23 hours.”

We need to make mentally ill prisoners are sicker, and they already make a large amount back to the prison system. Obviously our current system does not work. Prison staff psychiatrists to work as we can not expect. We are also mentally ill, the prison system to “not rehabilitated”, you can expect.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn of tens of millions of dollars for the Taxpayer Action Board as a non – violent offenders may be obtained by releasing thousands in annual savings are cited, they are closely monitoring and substance abuse treatment, mental health counseling, education, provides job training and employment opportunities.

For the most part, the mentally ill do not belong in prison. It is cheaper (and smarter) to change for us as taxpayers to fund programs to provide adequate treatment in prison, he would keep out.

Article Source:- http://nancybrak3.edublogs.org/2011/10/24/mental-illness-in-the-prison-system

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