http://lockupdoc.com/2010/02/mental-illness-in-u-s-prisons/ A Blog About Correctional & General Psychiatry and More Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://lockupdoc.com/2010/02/mental-illness-in-u-s-prisons/#comment-176 Toni Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:10:17 +0000 http://lockupdoc.com/?p=2028#comment-176 It is very obvious that there are many sick people in the prison system and the prisons here in the US have become the new mental hospitals. You can not punish a person into being well. prison guards are not educated in helping the mentally ill. We take many people who do not belong in the prison system that are clearly on the brink-edge of a disaster and once inside they are pushed over that cliff. It is very sad and tragic. It is very obvious that there are many sick people in the prison system and the prisons here in the US have become the new mental hospitals. You can not punish a person into being well. prison guards are not educated in helping the mentally ill. We take many people who do not belong in the prison system that are clearly on the brink-edge of a disaster and once inside they are pushed over that cliff. It is very sad and tragic.

]]> http://lockupdoc.com/2010/02/mental-illness-in-u-s-prisons/#comment-2917 Toni Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:10:00 +0000 http://lockupdoc.com/?p=2028#comment-2917 It is very obvious that there are many sick people in the prison system and the prisons here in the US have become the new mental hospitals. You can not punish a person into being well. prison guards are not educated in helping the mentally ill. We take many people who do not belong in the prison system that are clearly on the brink-edge of a disaster and once inside they are pushed over that cliff. It is very sad and tragic. It is very obvious that there are many sick people in the prison system and the prisons here in the US have become the new mental hospitals. You can not punish a person into being well. prison guards are not educated in helping the mentally ill. We take many people who do not belong in the prison system that are clearly on the brink-edge of a disaster and once inside they are pushed over that cliff. It is very sad and tragic.

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