Friday, September 23, 2011

Blog 6

Americans with a severe mental illness who break the law are being sent away to state prisons, instead of psychiatric hospitals. They just send them to the prisons, and try to help them out in their. They give them professionals who can help them, while they are serving their time. A lot of mental institutions in the U.S have closed, leaving the mentally ill out in the streets. And they are not capable of living on their own, so they end up breaking laws. States should open more hospitals for this people, and giving them a place to heal. Rather then leaving them out on the streets, knowing they will end up breaking rules. Their were many problems with the people in this places, including bipolar, illusions  

1 comment:

  1. Good point! How would we fund these facilities? What would they look like?

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