How Prisons Abuse People with Mental Illness • This Is Crazy • Part 2 of 3 • BRAVE NEW FILMS
People with mental health problems need treatment, not torture. Yet instead of being given the care they need, people are punished with solitary confinement and other forms of brutal abuse....
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Prison. The last stop on a long line of bad encounters for individuals who suffer from mental illness. It seems crazy to treat a health issue this way, doesn't it? After all, we don't send people to jail for having cancer. And yet we criminalize the mentally ill for a disease that produces behaviors that are completely beyond their control. They would come with a straight jacket, or the bull squad would come and if you were... y'know, fighting back, they'd maybe try to maybe get you upside down. Any way to restrain you. And sometimes people have a fractured arm, they was real rough, and you're going off, and you're having a manic moment and you hit one of them, they might snuff you, kick you - I mean, I -out of my whole 18 years ...
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Prison. The last stop on a long line of bad encounters for individuals who suffer from mental illness. It seems crazy to treat a health issue this way, doesn't it? After all, we don't send people to jail for having cancer. And yet we criminalize the mentally ill for a disease that produces behaviors that are completely beyond their control. They would come with a straight jacket, or the bull squad would come and if you were... y'know, fighting back, they'd maybe try to maybe get you upside down. Any way to restrain you. And sometimes people have a fractured arm, they was real rough, and you're going off, and you're having a manic moment and you hit one of them, they might snuff you, kick you - I mean, I -out of my whole 18 years ...
