Their special needs are much different than those who have basic needs. People who suffer from substance abuse have needs in the area of addiction. All these different kinds of people with diverse needs effect the jails and prisons in various ways. If people were not cared for properly there would be negative repercussions. There are programs in prisons that allow these prisoners to be cared for properly.
That's compared to only 40,000 in mental hospitals." Prisons were never designed as facilities for the mentally ill, yet that's one of the roles it plays. Prisoners have rates of mental illness-including such serious disorders as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depression-that are two to four times higher than members of the general public. There were designed mental institutions/hospitals for mentally ill people, but due to poor economic conditions, a lot of hospitals were shut down or overcrowded and people who were caught by the police committing crime because of their illness were sent to prisons instead of mental hospitals. And prisons don't have the right resources for treatment of all these diseases.
Factors that are taken into account when addressing the mentally ill are deinstitutionalization, more community and civic involvement, and formal training for the law enforcement who deal with this growing population. America’s prison system serves as the new asylum. After many mental institutions closed beginning in the mid 1960’s few alternatives materialized. Many individuals with mental health issues turned to the streets, where untreated they became vulnerable to drug abuse, crime, and joblessness. Roughly 5% of all adult Americans suffer from a serious illness according to a 2012 report by a division of the 2012 US Department of Health and Human Services.
By specific type of substance, inmates who had a mental health problem had higher rates of dependence or abuse of drugs than alcohol. Among state prisoners who had a mental health problem, 62% were dependent on or abused drugs and 51% alcohol.Over a third (37%) of state prisoners who had a mental health problem said they had used drugs at the time of the offense, compared to over a quarter (26%) of state prisoners without a mental problem. Source: BJS, Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates, NCJ 213600, September 2006. Abused state inmates were more likely than those reporting no abuse to have been using illegal drugs at the time of their offense. This pattern occurred especially among female inmates.
Finally, I will research a special offender population program and explain the characteristics and effects of this program on the special population. The affects of special need inmates on the jail and prison system
On any given day, about 70,000 are psychotic. These numbers represent a severe crisis for prison systems throughout the country. The report discusses two main reasons why the numbers have risen to a crisis level. First, as a result of the deinstitutionalization movement of the 1960s, many mental health hospitals were closed, but community mental health systems which were envisioned as taking the place of hospitals did not develop sufficiently. Many mentally ill—particularly the poor—are now without access to help.
M. Diaz 11 April 2012 Drugs in Prisons: Usage, Effects, and Intervention One might believe that incarceration would serve as an immediate cold-turkey rehabilitation for drug-using arrestees. However, contrary to this popular belief, more than half of incoming prisoners are dependent drug users (Gossop et al., 2000) and over 71 percent of prisoners reported dependent drug use during imprisonment (Strang et al., 2006). Drug use in prisons is not only a prevalent security and legal problem, but can also lead to the spread of diseases and increased violence. Intervention efforts must be made in order to combat this ever-increasing problem. A large number of these pre-imprisonment drug users persist the addiction throughout
According to Baer, from 1997 to 2010, the rate of youth incarceration dropped 37 percent (July 23, 2010). The United States leads the industrialized world in detaining juveniles, and said that the majority of incarcerated juvenile's are held for nonviolent offenses such as truancy and low-level property crime (Maryland Transfer
Serious violent juveniles should be removed from their homes and institutionalized. This is a get tough strategy that may acquire the attention of the juveniles and cause them to want to make a change in their lives. There are proposals being made about serious violent juveniles and the best solution on how to deal with them. Youth detention centers are being used across the United States to house juveniles who are serious violent juveniles and need extra attention. Youth detention centers are facilities that punish juveniles but they also offer them rehabilitative programs while housed in the facility.
Substance Abuse Programs Strategies in Prisons Alexander Vazquez Mount Olive CRJ-350 Advanced Corrections Dr. Michael E. Bumgarner 11/25/2008 Introduction Substance abuse is the act of an individual excessively using alcohol, chemical substances, and narcotics such as marijuana. When an individual suffers from a drug addiction problem they can usually go find help at a group therapy meeting or they can depend on their friends and family to help them kick their habit. Unfortunately for inmates it is not the same for them when they are locked up in prison because they are placed into substance abuse programs with individuals they do not know. Substance Abuse Programs Strategies in Prisons The process of cleaning out your body of toxins from substance abuse is known as detoxification (cited the bok). This is the processes were the