Frontline. The new asylums

Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to explore the complex and growing issue of mentally ill prisoners.

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"Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to explore the complex and growing issue of mentally ill prisoners."@en
"Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to explore the complex and growing issue of mentally ill prisoners."
""Nearly 500,000 mentally ill men and women are now locked up in America's jails. That's 10 times the number who remain in its psychiatric hospitals. In a system that's custom-built for security and punishment, not treatment, ill-equipped jailers double as caretakers of a burgeoning population of schizophrenic, paranoid and psychotic inmates. For many mentally ill people, prisons have become first and last option. The old safety net has gone. As psychiatric hospitals shut down, patients went onto the streets and became a policing problem, then a corrections problem.""
""Nearly 500,000 mentally ill men and women are now locked up in America's jails. That's 10 times the number who remain in its psychiatric hospitals. In a system that's custom-built for security and punishment, not treatment, ill-equipped jailers double as caretakers of a burgeoning population of schizophrenic, paranoid and psychotic inmates. For many mentally ill people, prisons have become first and last option. The old safety net has gone. As psychiatric hospitals shut down, patients went onto the streets and became a policing problem, then a corrections problem.""@en
"In the state of Ohio sixteen percent of prisoners held in gaol have been diagnosed with a mental illness. It is estimated that 500,000 people with mental illness are locked up in the penal system in United States, 10 times as many as the 50,000 who are in psychiatric hospitals. Treatment for the mentally ill is so much better in prison than in the outside society that judges are sending to gaol those who should be treated in psychiatric hospitals. The recidivism rate of these prisoners, once they are able to gain release, is extremely high because the mental health services provided for them are so inadequate. Prisons have unwillingly become the new asylums, the new mental hospitals."@en
""While the US is the focus of this program, the issues it raises resonate loudly in Australia where mental health agencies estimate nearly half of the prison population suffers mental illness Authorities in the American state of Ohio allowed cameras to go deep inside a jail system warehousing thousands of mentally ill inmates. With unprecedented access to therapy and treatment sessions, crisis wards and prison disciplinary tribunals, this PBS Frontline film starkly portrays how society has failed the mentally ill." -- Four Corners."
"Created by P.B.S., this Web site is an online companion to a Frontline television program that goes deep inside Ohio's prison system to examine the troubling and growing issue of America's severely mentally ill who reside behind bars, rather than in state psychiatric hospitals. Find out why Ohio is at the forefront of dealing with this issue and view an interactive map displaying statistics on the mentally ill in state prisons."@en
"Asks how nearly 500,000 mentally ill people ended up in America's jails, 10 times the number in its psychiatric hospitals. Through unprecedented access to therapy sessions, crisis wards and prison disciplinary tribunals in Ohio, portrays how society has failed the mentally ill."@en
"Psychiatrists, nurses, police, the mentally ill, their friends and families discuss the problems arising from the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill in Australia, members of the community in need of care often ending up on the streets or in prison. Case study."
"In 2005, approximately half a million mentally ill men and women were serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and wardens became the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of a burgeoning population, they raised a troubling new concern: have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums? With exclusive and unprecedented access to prison therapy sessions, mental health treatment meetings, crisis wards, and disciplinary tribunals, this Emmy-nominated edition of Frontline goes inside Ohio's penal system to explore the complex topic of mental health behind bars and to present a portrait of the individuals at the center of this issue. Distributed by PBS Distribution. (60 minutes)."@en
""Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to explore the complex and growing issue of mentally ill prisoners.""
"There are nearly half a million mentally ill people serving time in America's prisons and jails. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and ill-equipped gatekeepers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: are jails and prisons America's new asylums? Frontline goes inside Ohio's prison system to present a searing exploration of the complex and growing topic of mental health behind bars."@en