Insane by alisa roth5/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Some institutions - especially large ones - often try. One reason for this is the difficulty of diagnosing mental illness in the jail population. Mentally ill people who are incarcerated generally get little or no treatment, and - upon release - are often sicker than when they went in. Mental illness is a challenge even in the civilian community - with insufficient treatment centers and the like - but the problem is exacerbated in jails and prisons. Medical professionals have found that it's difficult to find the correct dosages medications sometimes stop working and there can be serious side effects. Examples are anxiety disorders addictive behaviors bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.ĭiagnosing and treating mental illness is difficult because there is no definitive test, and finding reliable drugs is often a matter of trial and error. ![]() Mental illness is a term that includes a wide array of disorders that affect a person's mood, thinking, and behavior. Roth found that almost every correctional facility in the country has a large number of prisoners with mental illness. She also interviewed mentally ill subjects and their families consulted experts perused medical and jail records inspected court reports and other public documents and read newspaper articles, books, and other source materials. Roth visited jails and prisons in New York, Illinois, California, Georgia, and Oklahoma. As a 2014-2015 'Soros Justice Fellow', investigative journalist Alisa Roth spent a year studying the plight of mentally ill prisoners in the U.S. ![]()
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