Statistics
True or False?
Above or below 50% of prisoners have a mental health condition.
What is a true?
64% in County Jails
54% in State Prisons
Certain kinds of therapy methods or approaches are found most effective for clients who have been in prison
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a lot of evidence based research about short term care, most incarcerated people respond well to looking back at their live events to get a better understanding of how they ended up where they are in current day.
This type of illness, often ignored or punished for having in prison, includes PTSD, intellectual disability, and trauma-related disorders is discussed throughout Just Mercy
What is mental illness?
The most prevalent disorder in state prisons is
What is major depression?
Others include bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
True or false: Many incarcerated people have witnessed or experience violence, especially in the form of physical or mental abuse
True
The man in Just Mercy, a Vietnam veteran with severe PTSD, was executed even though his mental illness clearly influenced his actions and should have made him eligible for treatment instead of death.
Who is Herbert Richardson?
In (blank) many states, there are more people with mental health conditions in prison/jail than in the largest remaining state mental health hospital.
44 states
Amounts to three times more people with mental health challenges being incarcerated than in psychiatric facilities
These are two big improvements that could be made to the penal system to enhance the mental treatment of patients
Availability of therapists that comes from better pay and the breaking down of the stigma around mental help
Bryan Stevenson repeatedly argues that this specific prison practice, which worsens mental illness and is often used on people with psychological vulnerabilities is a form of "torture for the mentally fragile."
What is solitary confinement