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Should prisoners receive mental health treatment while incarcerated? -…
Should prisoners receive mental health treatment while incarcerated?
Forced climate labor: In the U.S, prisoners are made to perform dangerous jobs that would earn them “hero” status in the free world.
“Extreme spikes in heat, cold, floods, hurricanes, tornados, pandemics, and climate change uniquely impacts people held in prisons.”
“They’re not able to decide for themselves whether to evacuate to safer ground, stockpile emergency items or even communicate easily with their support networks outside of prison.”
In 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, Prisoners in Parish prison were left in chest high waters while the prison staff fled. It happens again in 2021 when a sheriff decided to hold people in their cells as Hurricane Ida approached.
Prisoners were probably scared and felt betrayed and helpless.
“These conditions are inhumane” Although most prisoners deserve high punishment, treating people like animals makes them feel less valued which decreases their mental health.
Although having to live through these conditions, most (more than 80% out of 800,000 prisoners interviewed) are still forced to perform often dangerous jobs with little to no pay.
Road maintenance, road painting, firefighting, flood management, factory jobs, call centers, farms, and fields
The prisoners receive little training with study notes. “They aren’t typically provided the opportunity to build skills for careers after release”
64% said they feared for their safety
“Incarcerated workers are excluded from workplace safety protection laws and in many states don’t have the right to refuse work
A new progressive sheriff in town; New Orleans.
The new sheriff in New Orleans believes that prisoners need mental health treatment in order to be better for the outside world.
“Lance Africk described the jail as “an indelible stain on the community.””
Even a federal district court judge Expresses how the event of what happened during Hurricane Katrina was traumatic for the community
If it was traumatic for the community, imagine the prisoners who lived through it and had to continue with mental healthcare
“An average of three inmates a year have died in custody since 2014, nearly all from drug overdoses, suicide, or preventable medical emergencies
Having limited visitation rights and have forced being used on them by guards affects their mental health.
“Jails are like big freighter ships moving down the Mississippi, they need continuous attention to shift course.”
52 months of torture and zero answers.
Adam was 19 & arrested for minor charges.
“Plexiglas box, in an empty cell block with no windows, and with lights kept on for 24 hours.”
“United Nations has declared this form of segregation should never surpass 15 days.”
“Solitary confinement is considered one of the worst forms of phycological torture.”
In the 1950’s an experiment was conducted on monkeys that were put in solitary confinement for 20 days. They came out severely damaged.
1,383 similar cases of prisoners being held in solitary confinement for more than 7 days have been identified. 12 of those cases were for more than a year.
The staff got away with constantly adding a “5 day extension” for 52 months.
Adam Capay was held in solitary confinement for 52 months when this form of “segregation” shouldn’t be longer than 15 days.
“Capay has interacted with so few people over the last four years he is losing the ability to speak. He has tried cutting his wrists, and as smashed his head against the bars.”
Most prisoners receive extensive punishments that is caused by prison staff.