Mental Patients Not Safe in NYC Jails. Really?

Jail suicide is not unique to New York City jails. (Associated Press, "Jail system under scrutiny after 2 gruesome deaths," New York Post, May 22, 2014) Mitigating crime due to an arbitrary system of psychiatry makes no sense and is unfair. The law addresses the idea of mental illness as a defense to crime. Without meeting that criteria one is simply guilty. Drug corporations with their enablers in the psychiatric industry promote drug treatment in jails, forced drugging. They call it treatment. But often it is punishment, especially when required by courts. 

Inmates self mutilating is not limited to mental patients. Nick Freudenberg, a professor of public health at City University of New York who ran programs at Rikers for 15 years, said “Another level is the sorry state of mental health services in our society.” Negligence and negligent training of officers is a matter that can be addressed. The brutality of corrections officers responding in kind to the violence directed at them is an issue that may be beyond fixing. Increasing taxpayer money for psychiatry is wasting taxpayer funds. 

http://nypost.com/2014/05/22/jail-system-under-scrutiny-after-2-gruesome-deaths/

Jail system under scrutiny after 2 gruesome deaths
By Associated Press
New York Post
May 22, 2014 | 5:34pm