Mentally Ill Effects On Prisoners

The effects of solitary on prisoners and the mentally ill is frightening. Mentally ill prisoners account for one-fifth to two-thirds of people in solitary depending on the prison. Solitary has been proven to worsen a person’s mental state especially when they are mentally ill because it causes their psychiatric condition to dramatically deteriorate. Even prisoners without mental illness have a hard time adjusting to solitary and when they return to general population, they usually return more disturbed then when they went into solitary. Prisoners can end up in solitary for many different reasons, some are serious and some aren’t but depending on the severity, depends on when the prisoner will be released from solitary. Prisoners usually feel