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| Tackling the Mental Health Problem in New York City's Jails |
| By newsweek.com- Stav Ziv |
| Published: 12/05/2014 |
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The United States is the largest jailer in the world, and mentally ill inmates comprise a significant portion of its incarcerated population. There are 10 times as many individuals with serious mental illness in prisons and jails than in state mental hospitals. Treatment of those prisoners has been under increased scrutiny this year, with the death sentence appeal of schizophrenic Texas prisoner Scott Panetti and an investigation by The New York Times into the mistreatment of mentally ill patients at the Rikers Island jail complex in New York City published in July. “What someone with mental illness needs is different from what someone without it needs,” says Doris Fuller, executive director of the Arlington, Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to treatment of severe mental illness. “Anything that will help get treatment sooner will help,” she says. “They shouldn’t be in jail.” Read More. |
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