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Watch the following available on the internet: “It’s Time to Stop Abandoning America’s Mentally Ill” a presentation by author Pete Earley to the City Club Forum in Cleveland (5/27/16) which is approximately one hour long. Write a review/report of 4-5 pages double-spaced in 12 or 14 points addressing the following: How did Earley’s son get involved with the criminal justice system? What ultimately happened to his son? What advice did the police officer give to Earley regarding his son? What are Earley’s recommendations for improving the system? How has Ohio enacted some of his recommendations? What else needs to be done according to the author? No handwritten work will be accepted. Be prepared to discuss Earley’s presentation in class.
Watch the following documentary available on the internet: The New Asylums PBS Frontline (5/10/05) which is approximately one hour long. Write a review/report of 4-5 pages double-spaced in 12 or 14 points. Discuss the documentary in terms of what you have learned in chapters 1 – 4 of your textbook. Discuss at least 3 of the inmates in the documentary whose stories impacted you the most. No handwritten work will be accepted.
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It’s Time to Stop Abandoning America’s Mentally Ill
This documentary by Pete Earley advocates for the concern on the mentally ill in the
United States mental health facilities. A national survey conducted by the Treatment Advocacy
Center established that in 44 out of 50 States in the country large prisons and jails held more
people with mental illness serious mental problems compared to largest State psychiatric
hospitals in each state. Mental health is one of the most common health problems at the national
level. However, a person who continues to be under-diagnosed is always difficult to treat. People
with mental health problems will always be under diagnosed when in correctional facilities
compare to when in the right health facilities. T
These problems are compounded when the mental care institutions are replaced with the
correctional facilities as the main source of care for people who are suffering from mental
conditions. Such an issue is increasingly the case in the United States, according to the
National Institute of Corrections. Figures depicting the situation in the juvenile correction
facilities are even more shocking. They provide statistical evidence in the juvenile justice
system, in which 70 per cent have at least mental health problems while at least 20 per cent of
the juvenile inmates are living with serious mental problems. How to ensure adequate care for
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such patients is increasingly becoming another problem. In every one in five adults suffer
from mental illness in the US. These are the major issues discussed in the documentary by
Pete Earley, a mental health Advocate. The best experience that Earley provides in the
documentary is that of his son, Mike.
From his remarks, perhaps no other experience could outline the problem more clearly
than his personal experience. Earley speaks quickly and sharply about his personal experience
with Mike. His story began when he drove from New York to Virginia, to meet his college-age
son. Mike, turned to him and asked, "Daddy, how would you feel if someone you loved killed
himself?" To him, such a question is quite disturbing to every parent especially when the parent
knows that his or her child is bipolar.
Mike was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the previous year, but he had recently
stopped anti-psychotic medications that had been prescribe...
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