![]() ![]() ![]() As for the mentally ill who survive such encounters, their incarceration without medical treatment is quite likely to result in the worsening of the disease, until no amelioration seems possible or suicide results. Too often, Roth explains, encounters between the mentally ill and armed police result in serious injury or death. Because compassionate, well-trained, readily accessible professionals are unavailable to most severely mentally ill individuals-those with schizophrenia and/or bipolar disorder especially-when those individuals appear as threats to themselves or others, the first responders are usually police officers or others unequipped to deal with such situations. ![]() ![]() A searing exposé about the criminalization of mental illness that features a simple underlying theme that a society attempting the same disastrous policies over and over but expecting a different outcome is where the actual craziness resides.įormer Marketplace reporter Roth goes broad and deep, first explaining why the United States has never devoted adequate resources to dealing with its millions of mentally ill inhabitants, then using case studies to demonstrate why incarcerating the mentally ill in jails or prisons often makes no sense and does more harm than good. ![]()
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