What impact would you expect the prevalence of inmate mental health issues, in jails and prisons, have upon efforts to establish successful reentry programs?
The reentry program is a procedure through which the jail inmates go back to their homes and communities after serving their jail term. Many of these inmates suffer from mental health issues. Some of them are already mentally ill, but some of them develop mental health issues after entering the jail, to serve their term. This can be due to the long sentences or as some of them are wrongly accused and incarcerated. Depression and mental problems set in for such inmates. These mentally ill offenders are given support at every juncture by the legal system. The prison officers have to keep a special watch on these mentally ill criminals as their behavior is unpredictable. They have to arrange for appropriate treatment of these inmates who suffer from mental disorders. The judges sometimes have to pass sentences of short duration for the prisoners with mental illness, if it is proved that the accused was mentally ill while committing the crime. If a mentally ill inmate becomes eligible for parole or probation, the Parole or Probation officer has to be extra vigilant and ensure that the treatment and therapy for this inmates continues.
Reentry of such seriously mentally ill patients into the community is far more difficult and challenging than the reentry of normal prisoners. If the prisoners are released on parole or probation the concerned officers have to arrange for additional resources than they normally would have to do for other prisoners. The officers have to supervise and make sure that the mentally ill prisoners continue the medications and psychiatric treatment even after their release. This is a safety measure adopted to ensure that these prisoners after reentering the community do not cause a threat to the public safety. Some of the mentally ill inmates reenter their community after completing their full term of punishment. The mentally ill prisoners are discharged only after the arrangement of accommodation, monetary support, job and also the continuation of treatment is taken care of, to ensure that these prisoners do not create havoc in the society.
But the lack of proper and adequate psychiatric treatment outside the jail for these prisoners hampers their cure. As funds allotted for the treatment of these released inmates are limited, the social services are also roped in to help in managing and caring for the mentally ill released prisoners. The main intention of the reentry program is to help the released inmate to successfully make a transition from prison to society. The members of the society are apprehensive to accept prisoners in their midst. But, they are more reluctant and scared to accept the mentally ill prisoners whose behavior is unpredictable. The society therefore, is not so supportive about merging the mentally ill inmates into the community. The employers are also reluctant to employ such mentally-ill released prisoners. Lack of family and financial support coupled with the mental illness, aggravates the mental issues of these inmates, who are taken care of much nicely in the prison. Many of these reasons compel the mentally ill inmate to commit crime again and land in jail.
What impact would you expect the prevalence of inmate mental health issues, in jails and prisons,...
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