FRONTLINE-The Released chapter 1: A world seldom seen

This is the captioned/subtitled version of http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/released/view/

Five years ago, FRONTLINE's groundbreaking film, The New Asylums, went deep inside the Ohio prison system as it struggled to provide care to thousands of mentally ill inmates. This year, FRONTLINE filmmakers Karen O'Connor and Miri Navasky return to Ohio to tell the next chapter in this disturbing story: what happens to mentally ill offenders when they leave prison. The Released is an intimate look at the lives of the seriously mentally ill as they struggle to remain free.

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[kmarzfg]

@Pat87E 1. There is no research indicating that your frontal lobe's lack of development prevents the onset of schizophrenia. 2. How are you defining mental illness? Yes, schizophrenia affects approximately 1% of the population, severe depression, bipolar disorder, alzheimer's, etc. affect much higher rates, all of which constitute "severe and persistent mental illness" by most professional's definitions. Even with that I am being lenient by excluding PTSD, TBI and developmental disorders.

[Pat87E]

This is such bullshit. The man was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 16. The frontal lobe of your brain doesn't fully develop until age 25. Just bc Joe Public Defender went to law school just to flirt with chicks doesn't mean a man is "mentally ill". "Over half are mentally ill". That's such bullshit. Only 1.4% of the world is "mentally ill". This is just our criminal justice system experimenting on these convicts like lab rats. THEY DO NOT CARE.