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Mentally ill inmates
By: Richelle Williams
On June 11, 2013
Theory and practice of correction
Professor: Michael Bryant
In the United States, we have the highest rate of adult incarceration. With nearly 2.2 million inmates are incarcerated, with mental illnesses has increased year after year (Daniel, 2007). The correctional system has been transformed into the mental asylum for modern. American Association calls on prisons to develop procedures that correctly handle inmates with special needs. These inmates suffer from a variety of diseases such as mental disorders, infectious diseases and chemical dependency. These diseases require a different form of treatment to be considered rehabilitated.
Mentally ill inmates are a growing problem within the correctional system that cannot be ignored. The correctional system has experienced a lot of difficulties to identify and provide treatment to the mentally ill inmates, (Wettstein, r. 1995). About 15% of inmates in city, county and state jails and prisons have a mental disorder, (Wettstein, r. 1995). Mentally ill people don't think they are sick. It is not unusual for inmates with ailments. They feel they don't have a problem and do not need to be determined. A way to help them is by giving them an intense, structured treatment that could help them to control themselves and function normally. Structured activities can range from giving employees to give them their medication, to maintain a high ratio of staff to prisoners on a regular basis can help with their treatment, (Lamb, 2011). Treatments that have been proven to work for seriously mentally ill inmates are therapeutic activities, placed in intensive community programmes and also locked up in psychiatric hospitals.
There may be problems with the treatment of inmates because of a lack of psychological resources and funding, (Lamb, 2011). Employees ...
