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Offenders In Prisons

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Mentally Ill Offenders in prisons.
Mentally ill Offenders in prison who suffer from a range of problems like schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, autism and many more have to go through the problems where they can not get treatment or enough treatment in prisons and then the attitudes of some of the officers and other inmates. Of 132 suicide attempts in the Washington county jail 77% of the individuals who attempted had chronic psychiatric problems and American prisons and jails housed an estimated 356,268 inmates with several mental illnesses in 2012.
The mentally ill inmates that get sent to jail are sent to their own wing in the prison where they and other mentally ill inmates are separated and put into cells and given medication for their disorder
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