Mental Hospital Jail
Many individuals especially without access to mental health services and supports wind up homeless in emergency rooms and often re arrested.
Mental hospital jail. America s largest mental hospital is a jail. I haven t been in prison but i have been in psychiatric hospital. Christine montross says people with serious mental illnesses in the u s. Are far more likely to be incarcerated than to be treated in a psychiatric hospital.
In prisons the inmates are encouraged talked up given thi. Psychiatric hospitals also known as mental health hospitals and mental health units are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders such as major depressive disorder schizophrenia and bipolar disorder psychiatric hospitals vary widely in their size and grading. Based on what i ve read and heard contrary to what i ve almost tried to believe mental hospitals are definitely worse. Mental health treatment in jail will certainly reduce the burden on the untrained prison staff and this in turn leads to unnecessary intervention and punishment in prison.
The cook county jail has become a de facto mental health hospital the county s sheriff says. The dream of a good community mental health system was not solved and we went to the war on crime the war on drugs and massive cuts. John gress for the new york times the largest mental health center in america is a huge compound here in chicago with thousands of people suffering from manias psychoses and other disorders all surrounded by high fences and barbed wire. Another important issue is that many prisoners refuse treatment for mental disease inside the prison.
After waiting more than a month in jail he was found to be incompetent to stand trial due to mental illness and ordered to go to a state hospital for competency restoration a combination of psychiatric medication mental health treatment and education about the legal process. Under public pressure they scrapped a 1 7 billion plan to build a jail like mental health center partially on the site of the current men s central jail complex where the twin towers sit. Jailing people with mental illness creates huge burdens on law enforcement corrections and state and local. At least 83 of jail inmates with a mental illness did not have access to needed treatment.