Too Criminal to Care For
Sep 5, 2018 · 5 min read
Incarceration of non-violent criminals with mental disorders is a moral quandary caught between values of justice and care.

The number of individuals in prison who have a mental illness is steadily rising in the United States. By 2015, more than half of all the inmates in state and federal prisons and jails had a mental disorder, with the majority of those inmates concentrated at local jails, state prisons, and federal…

