Blog6: the american justice system: the new Asylum

Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number nearly 500,000 mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern. and many of those person who would have been in state hospitals are now in state prison, but same people in the prison say they hate to do this, but they know the prison will get treated if they will sent that person to prison.