The Criminal Justice System Has a Mental Health Crisis | NowThis

[@tiawilliams5690]

Calling a facility a psychiatric care facility implies there's psychiatric care available. Stop calling jails and prisons that. That's how that judge that threw the homework skipping teen in juvie can sleep at night. She thinks the girl is getting better through something they're doing in the jail. Really she's setting the girl up to fail for life. The police officers that think they're warriors aren't going to care if the person is in health crisis or not. Those officers that shot that bipolar pregnant woman to death knew she was in crisis. Sometimes people call 911 for an ambulance and get the police instead. It's not that they don't realize their loved ones need medical care. There was a bipolar man in TX that was shot dead after his girlfriend called for an ambulance. We need to remove policing from these scenarios almost entirely.

[@blackham7]

Let's call a spade a spade. It's not a "Pre Trial Detention Facility" it's a jail period. You can leave a facility of your own volition. You can't leave a jail.

[@ktakashismith]

This gets a bit muddy when you consider the process of involuntary commitment to psychiatric hospitals. A judge rules that you should not go to jail, but also rules that you are a danger to yourself (or to others) due to unresolved or undiagnosed mental health conditions. You then get put, against your will, in a secured psychiatric ward within a hospital, from which you do not choose when you leave. Is that jail as well?

[@barbaramatthews4735]

​@ktakashismith After treatment in a hospital, you won't have a criminal record in most cases. At least people can get some treatment and stabilization of severe psychiatric conditions. Most hospital stays are short term.

[@racenturtlez]

The mental state of the average person in this country is plummeting. We’re dying. We’re losing our minds. We’re being locked away. We’re all running out of time.

[@silverpairaducks]

Thats the purpose of the virus and riots....its a coup

[@chalkskeleton3653]

silverpairaducks that sounds like a conspiracy theory

[@silverpairaducks]

@Lost Hero you wouldn't know a duck if it bit you

[@opticalman6417]

thats down to the covid jab this is a world wide problem

[@docm1522]

I’ve seen so many people who struggle with mental health issues Wind up in jail and then be brutally beaten by sadistic thugs working in jail who face ZERO accountability for their viscous actions 🤬💀🔪🔪

[@bgi384]

Omg i always thought so too..i hate the way inmates r treated...inhuman brutes

[@mikeodee1164]

@@bgi384 there is too many severly sick in the head and very dangerous so called normal people i was vcitimized several times in my life by several white middle class americans and severly harmed by them and put in danger and im a poor white mentally ill american i moved to the arab neighborhood 14 years ago to get away from white middle class americans thank god i did for the past 14 years i been 100 percent safe thanks to the arabs in the arab neighborhood and they rent me one thousand times bettter apts and they treat me one thousand times better then many white middle class americans i delt with years ago this happend in society adn when i was in juvenile jail as a teenager i was never in adult jail

[@opticalman6417]

its becuase narcisist are running are criminal justice system world wide i seen this with the probation service in the uk

[@CherubiJubell]

Thank you for making this video. I've been trying to say for the longest that some of these people just need some help and compassion.

[@gf5914]

Compassion is the key. Thank you for that!

[@kennyhill2678]

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..

[@mikeodee1164]

not true there is still psych wards and psych hospitals but the psych hospitals are much smaller so they can only take so much people at a time now the psych wards are sending mentally ill people to jail even though they did not commit a crime they have to stay in jail untill there is an openning at the psych hospitals

[@aricashaw6646]

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

[@maggierezac5820]

OMG! I know the solution to this! But who will listen to that old lady behind the keyboard? Way back in the mid 90's during the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, {ADA} I was part of an advisory council on getting people with mental illnesses included in the ADA. One of the big things {in my mind} was that the ADA would also apply to inmate populations, whether State, Local, Federal, doesn't matter. Under that clause, each facility HAS to have a specific area and treatment plan for people with mental illnesses. Full stop. If they don't comply, which now, I don't know of any that do, they lose their federal funding. Full Stop. And then there is this current practice of 'mental health hospitalizations' that have reverted back to the 1950's with their warehousing and chemical restraints. That is not helpful. Okay, have a great weekend all. I have some work to do now! Dona Nobis Pacem!

[@blackham7]

Eurgh I miss the 90s

[@maggierezac5820]

@@blackham7 I do and I don't. Certainly better days than now! In my above capacity I was able to get my now late husband released from the state Penn. So that at least gave me almost 3 more years with him. Suicide in May of 1996.

[@gf5914]

A lot of us are listening.

[@maggierezac5820]

@@gf5914 Thank you for that!

[@GamingTechReview]

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

[@fluffypuffyboy586]

ALL of the people who are in the position to change something in jails should visit a german jail and copy everything we do right.

[@fluffypuffyboy586]

@Moondog DCLX 😎😎it means alot if the older people would want to get in a jail in germany instead of home becouse living there is better sometimes it is hard but true

[@fluffypuffyboy586]

@Moondog DCLX yes thats right as a german i know we had done very bad things in the past but we cant change it anymore but we forgive everyone and move on in life

[@kraftthisile9113]

America as a whole has a mental crisis. Honestly.

[@hunnybadger442]

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

[@abelincoln9026]

Excellent report. Thank you

[@KT-gi9do]

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

[@genossinwaabooz4373]

I can't stand it how people don't get it. I'm also from Mpls, one of the mentions in this video. Solutions only to keep profiting off people's suffering, and more trauma.

[@kimandrews9035]

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

[@B20C0]

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

[@paulhoskin3286]

Untreated mental condition I don't know why but I'm thinking of Donald Trump

[@camillel.4452]

😂

[@gf5914]

I know you’re joking, but the only difference between someone like Trump and those mentally ill in jail is that his father had money. That’s what kept him off the streets and out of jail.

[@doyoustayuplate4949]

My oh my

[@jewel1608]

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

[@BadEconomyOfficial]

A friend of mine went to jail, he’s autistic, he said that he kept to himself and did NOT try to talk to anyone.

[@moonchild8733]

This is nothing new. My Lord how many more years must they suffer?

[@djsano23]

Our mental health system is messed up and needs fixing. But also our crisis center. Im at a center where a majority of our clients are substance users and manipulates the system easily by feigning mental illness.

[@drakecarter1780]

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

[@j.tampora5400]

talking about the treatment of those with untreated mental health that have commited crimes due to the untreatment do not take anything away from the concern for the mental health of the victims of said crime. If anything it could lead to a decrease of this type of crime.

[@barbaramatthews4735]

This worse than asylums were.

[@xxxxbigrich5752]

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.

[@ez4me2c25]

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

[@bgi384]

Its so heart warming to see this video

[@martaperez-gonzalez5709]

Defund the police 2020

[@user-gc6my9jg2c]

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.

[@doveescobar8876]

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

[@mmegane5808]

If we actually had more mental health facilities, this wouldn’t be an issue. I see some people saying that having a mental condition is not a crime and I agree but when you harm someone else, it becomes a crime.

[@gf5914]

If a mentally ill individual is treated properly in advance,, it prevents rages and injuries towards others. It’s common sense.

[@gf5914]

Lost Hero - You are a reasonable person. The problem is mainly that the backwards thinking of not helping the mentally ill with community resources and then throwing them in jail when they can’t function in society is exactly the problem! Police offers have a job to do, but social workers they are not!

[@mmegane5808]

Lost Hero first things first, you’re speaking off of emotions and not facts. God bless your heart but seizure disorder or in other words epilepsy is not considered a mental illness, you can look it up. A mental illness is a wide range of conditions that affect mood, thinking, and behavior. The flu, a heart attack and cancer do not fall under the category of mental illness.

[@grahvis]

@@mmegane5808 . So exactly what is the difference with a person having a physical illness that causes them to harm another, or a mental illness that causes harm to another? Do I detect discrimination and stigmatising.

[@mmegane5808]

grahvis A chronic physical illness is an enduring health problem that will not go away - for example diabetes, asthma, arthritis or cancer. Neither of these things cause you to harm people. So yes, if you have diabetes or asthma or arthritis or even cancer and you harm someone you should be detained because those things do not affect your mood, thinking and behavior because it’s not a mental illness. Did you skip over the part where I said we need more mental health facilities?

[@talalalsultan3832]

What mental condition they are talking about it

[@douglaswright9701]

What about the victims and their families? Are they supposed to be comforted knowing that the people who ruined their lives are being treated like the REAL victim's and not the criminals?

[@justsomebloke6784]

There is an element of this occuring in Britain too due to chronic underfunding of mental health services ; but we do have a National Health service which is free at the point of use. This has saved my life on numerous occasions either by having elective surgery or post accident care. I have even had spinal surgery twice which has improved my quality of life no end. And as for mental health, whilst any treatment other than drugs is difficult to obtain, we do get the drugs for a reasonable cost or even free if you receive certain welfare benefits. The NHS is a jewel in our lives but the right wing want to turn it into a US style, insurance based service, which would massively impact on the health of the nation and all sorts of other aspects of society. I would not like to live in America, it seems to be dog-eat-dog and hard to survive in if you are poor with mental or physical health issues. Unfortunately we are now the 51st state of America in all but name. Although, there is some sort of weird poetic justice in a way : the British really kicked off the exploitation of North America, bequeathing along with slavery, our social structure and classist views which have permeated like the poison it is ; so now it has rebounded on us, we have little choice but to bow to the US, especially now we have excised ourselves from the European Union. This is why I have developed such an interest in the US : I see in your present, our near future.

[@MC-mh2ju]

bla, bla, bla...Nothing will change.

[@j.tampora5400]

not with that attitude

[@MC-mh2ju]

@@j.tampora5400 lol. Are you going to change it. Probably not.

[@jewel1608]

STOP IT!!!! Ohooooo, you think the system wants to 'HELP'!!! STOP THE PAY for BEDS!!!

[@doyoustayuplate4949]

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[@tet7497]

This is why trump signed first step act.