America Can’t Incarcerate Away Our Mental Health Crisis

Before I worked behind the wire, I figured the people prowling our jails and prisons were the kind of sociopaths you see in films, like Tony Montana and Hannibal Lecter. But that changed with my first correctional psychiatry job back in 2015. I learned I was all wrong about the makeup of America's correctional population and quickly realized the correctional system has largely assumed medical care of our country's seriously mentally ill.