From the findings, it is clear that alternative methods recorded an improvement in the behavior of incarcerated mentally ill individuals. It ascertained that the condition of the mentally unstable inmates incarcerated deteriorated with continued confinement. Most of the mental health practitioners and law enforcement officers confirmed that the mentally-ill patients improved their conditions when they were subjected to community-based care. Also, it confirmed that the mentally unstable individuals in the criminal system are exposed to more crime and violence. In other words, the disadvantages of the criminal system outweigh its advantages. The results also confirmed that that entire alternatives are significantly imperative in assisting the mentally unstable persons not to get…show more content… Nevertheless, United States prison authorities have progressively grasped a variation of isolation to rebuff and control troublesome or unsafe detainees (Reyes, 2007). Regardless of whether in the alleged Supermax detainment facilities that have multiplied in the course of recent decades or in isolation, that is, secured lodging, units inside consistent penitentiaries, a huge number of detainees put in years bolted up 23 to 24 hours a day in little cells that as often as possible have strong steel entryways (Riceland, 1999). They live with extensive reconnaissance and security controls, the nonappearance of standard social connection, unexpected ecological jolts, regularly just three to five hours seven days of diversion alone in confined fenced in areas, and little, assuming any, instructive, professional, or other deliberate exercises. They are bound and as often as possible shackled each time they leave their cells. The terms isolation, isolation, and disconnection will be utilized conversely to depict these states of
