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The shocking treatment of mental illness in UK prisons



The shocking treatment of mental illness in UK prisons

A shocking new report shows prisons are still being used as a so-called “place of safety” for people who are mentally unwell – a practice the 2022 Mental Health Bill was supposed to have stopped.
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The Prisons Inspectorate found they are being held in prison for an average of 85 days before being transferred to secure hospitals.

The result? Appalling levels of distress for some of the most unwell, and patients, prisoners, nurses and prison staff suffering real harm.

A Government spokesperson has told us:

“Offenders are entitled to access mental health support in prison, where they are also helped to get off drugs and into rehabilitation.

NHS England is investing in post-custody care to help prison leavers access their community-based health services – helping to reduce reoffending, cut crime and protect the public.”

Warning, you may find some of the details upsetting.
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  8. @Nawalschannel on

    Hi I have storey to share it's very very important about my uncle in prison now. i need help him other wise am gonna loose hem he safer from saver menal helth issue. Any one can help him to be transferred from h prison to an hospital. They want us to wait for 4-6 month to find a psychiatrist and with agin 2 month to provide the report.

  9. @Nawalschannel on

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  10. @Nawalschannel on

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  11. @butterfly4537 on

    Closed wards are not much different.

    It is one of the worst thing one can do to traumatized human beings who need love: freedom, attunement, relational healing, spiritual healing, physical healing, emotional healing, mental healing.

  12. @user-vb5pw6hl1m on

    The truth is what do scientists really know about these ailments and is there a cure it seems like there working on better treatments but it has taken 70 years for a wave of new medication the thing about everything is that the schizophrenic population doesnt have a voice their going to sweep things under the rug

  13. @liittlemiissd on

    I AM 22 BUT have developmental and intellectual disabilities to the point where I have the mind of a child. I can definitely be taken advantage of, and HAVE been manipulated, it’s really scary. I’m deemed in need of high support, I can’t get a job, I’m deemed non consenting, I don’t really have the capability to make choices for myself, I’m basically a kid. How I view the modern world is how a child would, I cant grasp super complicated subjects, i can’t cook, I can’t clean, on top of a whole other bunch of stuff that non disabled people take for granted, I like cartoons, I have meltdowns, I like Lego, toys, comic books, sweets, I still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (although nowadays watching cartoons are becoming less and less of a niesh I've noticed) I live with my mother who i'd be lost without, im asexual so i don't even WANT to partake in those types of acts with anyone. However mind you, little kids can get crushes too, their just different from adult or even teenage crushes, my first crush was a girl I knew on my street when I was 8, the reason I liked her was because we both liked Lego. It certainly wasn’t sexual or anything like that, it was just a crush I didn’t understand. Even now when I have a crush on someone it’s always in a very non sexual childlike way, I just wanna play with Lego and watch movies and be their for each other. I hate that autism to some people is just “special interest hehe quirky” when their exists autistic people who’s life are ACTUALLY negatively affected by it. Ive seen some kids learn something as a 12 year old but i cant even begin to comprehend it, My father abused me my entire life, he punched me and strangled me when he was angry, he alienated everyone in his family and even when I was diagnosed at age 12 he STILL didn’t even believe I had autism. Not to mention my Christian school would target me for bullying and targeted harassment because they knew I was too timid to tell giving me life long trauma, then had the gull to try and kick me out so they didn’t have to deal with me, which my father blamed me for, My mother eventually had the sense to throw my dad out of the house, which of course he blamed her for. He went on to start a brand new family to replace me. Yeah I had my nana who always cared and mom who did her best with her crappy circumstances so I at least had some resemblance of a support system.

  14. @carol2336 on

    Please don't forget what the criminal did to end up in prison.Not all mentally ill people go to prison.Some mentally ill people live a honest life. The judge who put the person in the mental health prison did an assessment and investing the crimes committed . Also looked at the victim of the criminal act. They are there for a reason.

  15. @Michelle_Schu-blacka on

    I have multiple mental health issues.

    I spent the best part of half a day in a cell and it took the best part of a year to recover. I would not hang around if there was even a sniff of going in again.

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