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Prison madness: America's crisis of incacerated mental health patients
1. Prison Madness by Ben Wilkins PRISON MADNESS America’s Crisis of Incarcerated Mental Health Patients WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SUBJECT MATTER AND LANGUAGE THAT MAY BE DISTURBING TO SOME READERS. READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. I...
Prison blues: Battling depression on the inside
PRISON BLUES: BATTLING DEPRESSION ON THE INSIDE By Leo Cardez America has a mental health problem. Nowhere is this more evident than in America's broken criminal justice system where research reveals up to 40% of...
Statement on mental health
I begin with salutations of respect, and love. I use respect because whether one agrees with or contends a particular persons approach or pressing cause, when their is respect one shall be seen, and heard...
Incarcerated: Prison's emotional impact
INCARCERATED Prison's Emotional Impact By Antwann Johnson Thursday, July 22, 2021 started out as any other day for me. But it was around 10:00 A.M. that something struck me as odd. As I stared out...
Solitary mind
S1 Solitary Mind The title sounded like a good title for this essay about my thought A.K.A my solidtary mind. There isnt anything wrong with liking being alone but the alone trip is used for...
Mental health reform in prison
Reform Mental Health DRT 13 Mental Health Editor APWA Reform must come from the Inside, out. After 18 years in NC Prisons, I've had the opportunity to interview dozens of prisoners who have been seen...
Today's psychology in solitary confinement
Today's Psychology In Solitary Confinement: By Derek Capozzi As I sit in my cell it crosses my mind that the people running the psychological departments of penal institutions may know a lot less about rehabilitation...
Buried alive: The real horrors of solitary confinement
Buried Alive The Real Horrors of Solitary Confinement There is a dark place within us all. For some, though, that dark place is just a tad bit closer to the surface than it is for...
Why solitary confinement is torture
Why Solitary Confinement Is Torture By Jack Hays Black's law dictionary defines "torture" as, "To inflict intense pain to body or mind for purposes of punishment..."1The United Nations has classified solitary confinement by its very...
Mental health treatment within the prison system
Mental Health Treatment Within the Prison System I've been locked down on the Tier Program going on two years now. hat being said I've created a system of how I do my time, though I...
Locked inside: Mental health in prisons
Locked Inside: Mental Health in Prisons By Franklin Lee *(All names has been changed) "THEY ARE MORE inked up, deep rooted in criminality, have irrational behaviors, victimizing... it's unfortunate," said "Iggy"* as he...
Criminalized & dehumanized for mental health issues
Criminalized & Dehumanized For Mental Health Issues. By: Timothy D.V. Bazrowx On or about May 13, 2015, I had the unfortunate experience of being acquainted with our segregation section of my assinged unit; all because...
Michigan's mentally ill/solitary confinement prisoners: How brain science can help
Michigan’s Mentally Ill/ Solitary Confinement Prisoners: How Brain Science Can Help—What I Did or Didn’t Do to Curb my Mental Instabilities, Anger Issues, and Sexual Impulses I am an inmate who has been incarcerated for...
Solitary confinement
Topic: Solitary confinement Page 1 A) Been placed in solitary for minor infractions B) Never committed violence and there is an initial shock with going to hole C) Attempts at adjustment D) After a few...
Mental health
Mental Health The recent lawsuit on mental health in solitary confinement has brought a flicker of candle light to a subject that desperately needs a spotlight. Unfortunately, the subsequent settlement has pretty much guaranteed no...
My testimony of solitary confinement
"My Testimony of Solitary Confinement" by: Stanley Corbett, Jr. a.k.a. "Knowledge G." I've been in solitary confinement since March 14th, 2006. In which it's been a living hell! I've almost lost my mind several times,...
Gorilla in the prison mental health closet
Gorilla in the Prison Mental Health Closet The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reports there is increasing understanding of how psychological trauma causes an ever more familiar anxiety disorder called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...
Mental health
MENTAL HEALTH Not only is it important that you stay physically healthy in order to survive prison, but it is as equally important that you stay mentally healthy. The prison experience/environment can easily take its...Loading...
