Mental Health in Prison.

Step1. Mental Health in Prison.
After reading Chapter
11, discuss the costs of housing persons with mental illnesses in prisons
versus housing those who are not mentally ill.
1-
Does the information from the reading apply to
our local prisons? Here your answer 200 words or more.
2-
Is treatment a
factor? Here
your answer 150 words or more.
3-
Training for
staff? Here
your answer 100 words or more.

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Step-2 Q: After reading Chapter 11, discuss the
costs of housing persons with mental illnesses in prisons versus housing those
who are not mentally ill. Does the
information from the reading apply to our local prisons? Is treatment a factor?
Training for staff?

Housing persons with mental
illnesses in prison is quite different from housing those who are not mentally
ill. It is three to ten times more likely for an individual with a mental
illness to be incarcerated than an individual without. This means that these
individuals are more likely to be cycled through the criminal justice system
rather than seeking treatment at hospitals. Compared to jails, prisons are more
likely to provide treatment for mental illnesses. For example, the Walla Walla
State Penitentiary has its own mental health unit that houses individuals with
such conditions. According to the text, prisons can be toxic and brutal
environments for persons with mental illnesses because of the lack of privacy,
lack of resources, competing statuses, noise, and how overcrowded it can be.
The result of this consists of long stays within prison, lack of personal
growth, remaining mentally ill, and recidivism. Housing prisoners with mental
illnesses require extra treatment compared to those not mentally ill. For
example, needing extra assistance for mental health upon being released,
programs inside the prison walls that also help, and needing basic treatment.
As for training and staff, correctional officers are not trained in the mental
health field thus being unprepared to deal with episodes of psychotic and manic
behavior. A correctional officer should not approach an aggressive inmate
without a mental illness as they would with a mental illness. Therefore,
learning to adapt to the different mindsets is extremely important.

Work Cited
Slate, R., Buffington-Vollum, J.,
& Johnson, W. W. (2013). 10. In The Criminalization of Mental illness., Carolina Academic Press. Durham, North Carolina. LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENTS FOR MORE INFORMATION

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