Mentally Ill? Welcome to Prison
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- Published on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 17:00
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More than half of all suspects shot and killed by police were
suffering from mental illness - this is crazy.
And over 300,000
Americans in prison today have a mental illness diagnosis.
That’s
why today we are releasing part one of our new series, This is
Crazy: Criminalizing Mental Illness. This three part series calls
on the critical and immediate need for the treatment of
mental health through a public health system, not the barbaric
criminalization of it.
You see it almost everyday in the media now: confrontations with
people that have mental illness and the police—and far too many times
these encounters end with death. Or, mentally ill people find
themselves in a totally abusive and dysfunctional prison system,
instead of getting the appropriate care they so desperately need.
Part one of this series shows what happens when police are not
properly trained to deal with people with mental illness. And shows
that there is a totally doable and cost effective solution - Crisis
Intervention Training - that the majority of police departments still
don’t use!
This is crazy.
Mental health needs to be
treated, not criminalized.
Watch the video. Learn about what we can easily do differently, if enough people push for it.
And post this video to all 2016 presidential candidates’ Facebook
pages, so together we can call on them to come out for humane police
trainings, not more tasers and abuse for mentally ill
people!
Onward,
Robert Greenwald, President
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