The Criminal Justice System Has a Mental Health Crisis | NowThis

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1. This worse than asylums were.

2. People are not mentally ill. They are suffering from trauma, since criminals are running the world.

3. So you want a mentally ill person with little to no rational thinking ability to make a rational choice to remain voluntary at a center and officers to use words to reason with a person of this magnitude? sounds like you trying to get lesser sentencing for persons other than mentally ill individuals.

4. I invented a system to help,with this…. but I can't get anyone that could actually do something with it to respond

5. As a former inmate I can tell you, there is no psych ward anymore. These people are on the streets until they find themselves in jail. It's people in there with childrens brains. They're not criminals, they're targets and victims, unless they're fortunate enough that someone can love them and handle them. Maybe a group home , if they're lucky..

6. There is no money to be made from mental health courts, nationwide they rather send them to jails and prisions. The courts and jails create money for the system, sending them to get the help they need, is not a money maker. There is no help for minorities with mental illnesses. Police don’t help all they want to do is prosecute and throw them in jail or prisons. Mental health laws need to change nationwide, it’s happening all over the country, there are many pages from family members asking for justice. Not all the time do police officers do the right thing, they are trained to prosecute not take them to a ward. There needs to be social workers in court rooms all over the country. Prisons aren’t made for the mentally ill, it’s a shame the US hasn’t caught up with the fact mentally I’ll patients need help not prisons

7. Its so heart warming to see this video

8. bla, bla, bla…Nothing will change.

9. I work in a prison and treating residents/inmates humanely goes along way!

10. I got ptsd anxiety depression copd& other health issues and clark county ohio loves to mess with me..they do not care here

11. What mental condition they are talking about it

12. How about talking about the victims mental health after the crime?

13. All this sharing about what is happening. What are people in authority doing about it?

14. How about abolishing our prisons where 100,000 children are incarcerated?

15. Criminal justice system is creating mental illness 😪

16. For profit prisons are basically a human rights violation. In literally every other democratic country justice is carried out by the state with the goal of rehabilitation. In the US prison is meant to punish people and take them out of society and they achieve this even long after people get out. And most of the time that's exactly why they often come back.

    "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

17. In large part, it creates the identity of an ~~outsides~~ outsider to the group. The justice systems functions to ostracize rather than to integrate. Ego and identity problems. Related to the issues around identity politics.

18. I'm Bro Jivin' and I don't understand this message !

19. Cops have mental illness always acting up

20. America as a whole has a mental crisis. Honestly.

21. The U.S has a mental health crisis, not just the non-rehabilitation meat cells for profit.

22. This is a good thing! It's great if it's continued to see through. Great idea 💡I just think that politicians would rather stick the money for these programs in their grubby pockets instead of helping others. Especially if they are minorities, they would rather send them to jails.

23. STOP IT!!!! LAW : Do unto Others / as you would have done unto you [cops, rescue people, judges, juries & more]

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