Mental Illness In Jails

In the past, and still occuring now, people with mental disabilities were often thrown into jail for the wrong reasons or while in jail were treated inhumanly. It states in the journal Prisons of the Mind: Social Value and Economic Inefficiency in the Criminal Justice Response to Mental Illness, “statistics show that between 30 and 40 percent of mentally ill individuals in the jails...had no criminal charges pending against them, while jails report frequently holding people with mental illnesses simply because there is no other place to put them,” this means that many people who need help and assistance for their illness are often thrown into a prison and neglected because that is easiest for the people in charge, rather than seeking out help