Apr
21
2013
The Mentally Ill In Jails Don’t Get Good Treatment
Author: siggyThe mentally ill in prisons don’t get good treatment. They use the cheapest drugs to treat them. The mentally ill in jails are disposable. And what does that say about us? I learned about this from a lady who spent time in jail. They had her strapped down in a chair for days. She went cold turkey from all her medications and convulsed. She could have died. She did not even belong in jail. They made a mistake arresting her. Her psychiatrist gave the jail hell for what they did. Then I found out how poor treatment the mentally ill get in jails. They don’t really care about them. It is only now they are beginning to address the problem. And there are more mentally ill in jails than in hospitals. That is a travesty.
