Frontline: New Asylums addresses the lack of effective policies to facilitate treatment and rehabilitation for the mentally ill within the prison system. The social injustice theoretical perspective addresses the need for social benefits‚ resources and protection of the mentally ill within the criminal justice system. The perspective provides equal access of resources to all people and is based on human need rather than political or social power. The elimination of state mental hospitals was not
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Section 1 The Frontline episode “The New Asylums”‚ dove into the crisis mentally ill inmates face in the psychiatric ward in Ohio state prisons. The episode shows us the conditions and every day lives of mentally ill patients in Ohio state prisons‚ and explains how these inmates got to this point. It appeared that most of these prisoners should have been patients in an institute of some sort‚ out in society‚ but unfortunately due to whatever circumstances they ended up in prison. According to
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New Asylums There is a growing number of prisoners faced with mental illness which is leading to American prisons being turned into new mental asylums. There is a need for intervention but determining an affective method is the real challenge. As shown in the video‚ there is growing frustration among correction officers leading to what appears to be abuse between the prisoner and the officer. Correction officers are no longer only responsible for the security of the prison and the prisoners but
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The New Asylum Watching the documentary‚ the New Asylum opened my eyes a lot. I have heard the saying‚ “prisons are the new asylum” plenty of times‚ but I did not believe it to be true until watching the documentary. Before watching it I always viewed the prison system as a very harsh and coercive place‚ but now I see how much it help people with mental illness. If it wasn’t for the prison system some people would not have a place for treatment. I believe if the government had better funding there
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representation of the truth. Frontline ’‚ US Media Blues ’ and Media Watch ’ attempt to give insight on how media corporations represent the truth. Collectively‚ these three texts are an invitation for responders to question the authority and work ethics of those who control the telling of the truth‚ and think critically of how the truth can be distorted or misrepresented. Arguably‚ the representations of truth by the media are influenced by ulterior motives. Frontline satirize such motives of media
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that the truth can often be misleading. Since the first episode of Frontline‚ aired in 1994 as a satirical TV-series on Current Affairs programs (‘A Current Affair’ ‘Sixty Minutes’ etc.)‚ people have been exposed to the problematic nature of news delivery within capitalists’ societies where profits are a consideration. Frontline reveals how the truth can become a casualty in the scramble for ratings. Throughout the series‚ Frontline producers expose the lengths Current Affairs programs will endeavour
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The debate about asylum seekers in Australia is contentious and politically charged‚ but research commissioned by Amnesty International has found that anti-asylum seekers sentiments are not actually fuelled by racism. Australia pride itself on its strong human rights record and its standing as a good global citizen. However deeper analysis and according to recent situation that how boat people are being treated shows that Australia has failed to fulfill with its international human rights obligations
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having a jail problem. The Kentucky police has been locking up more inmates than they have ever before. The jails are overpopulated and the state is trying to figure out a solution to this jail problem. The video “Prison State”‚ a documentary by PBS Frontline‚ shows the problem Kentucky has with more inmates in jail. The states spends a lot of money to lock up prisoners. The state alone spends 50 million dollars annually on locking up juveniles. It also cost 87 thousand dollars to incarcerate a child
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Are you mental? Who are we to decide what crazy is and what it brings? Some people might say that being crazy is a mental illness. Others say crazy is what you make it. Meaning that you can be normal and then when something excites you‚ you become crazy. Some people think that crazy is caused by heightened emotion sexual‚ sad‚ mad‚ or hunger. Ill take you through the thoughts of a crazy person and show you our inside world. Mental hospitals were the worst before the 1844. All the mental patients
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Who are these People? Asylum seekers are people who have fled their own country to seek refuge in another country whereby they apply for ‘asylum’ or rights to be recognised as genuine refugees with legal status and the assistance that it entails. Many of the asylum seekers we see crossing Australian borders are from the Middle East and Asia. Reasons for the illegal entry varies for the individual‚ but most commonly relates to discrimination of one reason or another‚ such as religion‚ nationality
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