![]() In many, many places the corrections officers are really seen and used as the eyes and ears of the clinicians. National What Is The Role Of Jails In Treating The Mentally Ill? But then they'll be punished for something like possession of a weapon if they used a razorblade or a pencil to cut themselves, or they'll be punished for destruction of state property for tearing a sheet to tie it into a noose. ![]() One of the other things that we see often is that somebody will try to hurt themselves - either an actual suicide attempt or a cutting "self-harm incident" as they're called - and will be punished for trying to commit suicide or for trying to cut themselves.Īnd in this sort of irony of ironies, some states or counties have passed rules which say, OK this person has mental illness - the cutting is a symptom of the mental illness - so we're not going to punish that behavior. On punishing mentally ill prisoners for self-harm, which is frequently a symptom of their illness Some jails might count PTSD as a mental illness and others use people who are really underqualified to be to be diagnosing the disease and so end up with severe undercounts. It's complicated, because statistics in the criminal justice system are notoriously poor and how we define mental illness is complicated. ![]() On estimating the number of people with mental illness in jail and prison ![]()
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