I think this is a great topic to address, and more generally our broken prison and justice system. I mean, no rehabilitation happens in jail/prison -- it's punishment and holding cell, and they go right back out to the public, and in lots of cases end up doing it all again. Petty crimes and drug addicts aren't "helped" by being in jail. The rate of people committing another crime after incarceration is astounding. "According to an April 2011 report by the Pew Center on the States, the average national recidivism rate for released prisoners is 43%." (see source below) I won't get on that train-- back to the topic at hand.

This scenario is doubly true to the mentally ill in jails/prisons around the country. There isn't resources or enough help to even go around if services are available. It's really a sad sad thing to see. I wish we could find a better method of "helping" these individuals.



Public Safety Performance Project, State of Recidivism: The Revolving Door of America’s Prisons, The Pew Center on the States (April 2011), "Archived Copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2019-3-13.