The result is a significant net loss for Connecticut. There will, of course, be an initial saving in the cost of housing those inmates, but if hundreds or thousands of mentally ill inmates are released, that saving will disappear once those mentally ill released prisoners return to prison, and before they return, there will be increased costs for the outpatient treatment and emergency room treatment of those who do obtain treatment, and increased costs for law enforcement who will have to arrest those mentally ill inmates who commit more crimes, and there will be financial losses and possibly injuries to the victims of the crimes those released inmates commit. The recommendation that more sentences be commuted, and more prisoners be released, completely ignores that reality that just about all of the released inmates are mentally ill, are unlikely to receive significant treatment after they are released, and are likely to return to prison because of their mental illnesses. The medical records I have reviewed show me that medical treatment in Connecticut's prisons is inferior to treatment in hospitals and outpatient clinics, but some treatment is better than no treatment at all. Many also neglect physical illnesses and ailments for the same reasons, resulting in significantly higher costs for emergency rooms throughout the state.Īs the Connecticut Sentencing Commission study shows, mentally ill people end up in Connecticut prisons, leading to the conclusion that should be obvious, that our state's prisons have replaced our state's mental hospitals and psychiatric wards as the providers of treatment for mentally ill people. Many, of course, use street drugs instead of prescribed medications. Many refuse treatment because a prominent symptom of many mental illnesses is the belief that the person does not need medication, or a delusion that prescribed medication is harmful. While no longer a dominant force, their saturation within internet culture in the early 2010s was on par with Advice. These patients are unable to make or keep appointments, unable to get to outpatient treatment sites, and unable to maintain a proper dosing schedule for prescribed medications. 10 Years in Rage: The Anniversary Album is the ninth full-length album released by the German heavy metal band Rage in 1994. The rage comic is intrinsically linked to the internet of a bygone era. I have read thousands of medical records confirming this. The policy was, and is, misguided because many mentally ill people are unable to obtain proper treatment for their mental illnesses. In a misguided policy of protecting the rights of mentally ill people, as well as an attempt to save money by both the state and by hospitals, mentally ill people were released in favor of outpatient treatment, the state closed mental hospitals, and hospitals closed their psychiatric wards. In many ways, even though it happened in 2010, it resembled the memes of the 2000s more: It went viral after Jimmy Kimmel’s show account tweeted it, and it spread over email and Gchat from person to person. When I began practicing law, mentally ill people received hospital treatment, in psychiatric wards, or in state hospitals like Fairfield Hills. It’s a viral video, sure, and it was one of the first truly huge and popular ones.
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