The Mentally Ill And The Prison System
Maria Cartaya
Professor Tyberg
English 1A
March 18, 2014
The Mentally Ill and the Prison System. A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder is an anomaly that causes either suffering or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life. I would like to emphasize on the word anomaly; it means something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected and that cannot be control. It is something different, so why are these people treated equally as other prisoners. This essay will discuss if the mentally ill should be in prison or in a mental hospital because after all they are sick people who need professional help.
In discussions of the mentally ill inmates, one controversial issue has been if they should go to prison or a mental hospital. On the one hand, the Canadian Psychiatric Association argues that prisons are not optimal places to provide mental health services. On the other hand,____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. My own view is that the mentally ill should receive the appropriate treatment they deserve because as the Canadian Psychiatric Association said the “mental health services provided in prison are not equivalent to those provided in the community”. It would also privatize these people of their right to receive the medical attention they need. A quotation from the paper by Brooks et al. (1996). says: “On the grounds of humanity and public safety, it is unacceptable that mental disorder in this readily accessible group of offenders should go undetected and untreated”. This quote talks about this group of people who are imprisoned and untreated and how it is wrong to obviate the fact that this people need help. I’m not saying that the mentally ill don’t receive medical treatment in prison, but that the treatment they receive should be evaluated to see if they
Professor Tyberg
English 1A
March 18, 2014
The Mentally Ill and the Prison System. A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder is an anomaly that causes either suffering or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life. I would like to emphasize on the word anomaly; it means something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected and that cannot be control. It is something different, so why are these people treated equally as other prisoners. This essay will discuss if the mentally ill should be in prison or in a mental hospital because after all they are sick people who need professional help.
In discussions of the mentally ill inmates, one controversial issue has been if they should go to prison or a mental hospital. On the one hand, the Canadian Psychiatric Association argues that prisons are not optimal places to provide mental health services. On the other hand,____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. My own view is that the mentally ill should receive the appropriate treatment they deserve because as the Canadian Psychiatric Association said the “mental health services provided in prison are not equivalent to those provided in the community”. It would also privatize these people of their right to receive the medical attention they need. A quotation from the paper by Brooks et al. (1996). says: “On the grounds of humanity and public safety, it is unacceptable that mental disorder in this readily accessible group of offenders should go undetected and untreated”. This quote talks about this group of people who are imprisoned and untreated and how it is wrong to obviate the fact that this people need help. I’m not saying that the mentally ill don’t receive medical treatment in prison, but that the treatment they receive should be evaluated to see if they