The Importance Of Imprisonment

Imprisonment! Who would like to be imprisoned, especially for so long? Just the name Imprisonment has been so powerful that it brings shame and emotional stress to individual, family and society. The same applies to mental illness. According to USA TODAY in “Cost of not caring: Stigma set in stone,” health care policy has made mental illness a shameful disease by limiting health care coverage that psychiatric patients get. Though imprisonment is outrageous, there is nothing wrong with incarcerating patients with mental illness, but, wrong with the way prison staff and government policies treat them.7

The problem with incarcerating the mentally ill people is the way health care workers, sheriff and prison officers treat psychiatric patients

As a way to punish them when they do wrong because of their illness, let patients fight among themselves to see who is strong which leads to death sometimes. They teased them to anger, denied them of their activities and good residence conditions that will improve their health. The hallways caked in grime, mildew on walls, sewage systems backed up and cockroaches in the kitchen. All these increased the chance of worsening their health. Some patients are denied the care and drugs that they need in the unit and prevent their relatives from seeing them. Some even get the wrong medication for treatment that worsens their case. Visit with family members and friends will release those patients to some extent since they will have the feeling that their friends and relatives had not forgotten them and that they still love them. Also, giving them the correct care and drug

The federal government stigmatized psychopathic patients by setting barriers to how psychiatric patients should get care.5 That is done to only mentally ill patients and not any other patients. The federal government does not provide support for States to take care or keep their psychiatric hospital and hospital beds. That prevents most patients from the care they need since there is no bed to keep them for a given period and take proper care of them. Also, The Parity Law of 1996 Act and The Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 established by the federal government. The federal government has not set rules to govern how parity law (a federal law that prevents health insurance issuers and group health plans that provide benefits to mental health and substance abuse disorders from limiting the benefits that those patients receives) that should affect Medicaid, the insurance of most low-income people in the country. It has not expanded access to services either. The Medicare law also discriminates against mentally ill people by limiting the number of days those patients can receive inpatient psychiatric care. Mentally ill individuals don 't get the help they need when they seek to it; some don 't ask for contributing to providing the proper care because of stigma. That leaves those people more vulnerable