Mentally Ill Inmates Crowd Prisons, But Mental Health Units May Offer Some Relief
psychcentral.comrecidivism rate for parolees with mental illness.It is estimated by researchers that as many as 1 in 3 inmates now incarcerated may be affected by mental illness.
For serious mental illness — defined by the National Institutes of Mental Health as a disorder that leaves someone seriously functionally impaired, interfering or limiting activities of life like holding a job — as many as 20 percent of inmates in jails and 15 percent of inmates in state prisons may be affected.In fact, many patients, especially those with psychotic disorders, don’t receive their first psychiatric treatment until after they are incarcerated.“The incarceration of mentally ill patients, who are often imprisoned due to issues related to untreated mental illness, is a.
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