Prison Mental Illness

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Mental illness refers to a wide variety of disorders , more than 100 individuals are incarcerated in prisons and jails which means they should be locked up should be released. Prisons and jails aren’t a place for the mental ill people that are incarcerated. Prisons were never designated for or are not run to accommodate the needs for the mentally ill(Fellner n.pag).Theres an average of two million individuals with mental illness are booked into jails each year. For example mentally ill prisoners who break many rules ,“Act out” or are otherwise unpleasant or disruptive get locked up interminably in serrated units or under high security(Fellner n.pag). Once mentally ill people are incarcerated many inmate and prisoners don’t receive the right treatment. Correctional …show more content…

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