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Jail More Likely Than Treatment For Americans With Psychiatric Disorders

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Jail More Likely Than Treatment For Americans With Psychiatric Disorders By Michelle Diament May 13, 2010 Americans with severe mental illness are three times more likely to go to prison than to a psychiatric hospital, new research indicates. While the likelihood varies by state, there is no state where individuals experiencing diagnoses like schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are more likely to be in a psychiatric hospital than a jail, the findings from a new report conducted by the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs? Association indicate. The best case scenario appears to be in North Dakota where the odds are one to one that a person with mental illness will be in prison or a psychiatric hospital. In contrast, Arizona and Nevada each host 10 times more people with mental illness in their jails than in psychiatric facilities...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).