The shocking treatment of mental illness in UK prisons 

As someone with mental health issues, that I've had my entire life, I can honestly say that the "services" the NHS deliver and provide are traumatic. So sad that these extremely vulnerable people aren't even getting that... Truly barbaric!

It’s so fucked. It’s like either sort the issue out or let people die peacefully. This is basically torture

Have we fallen back to the 1800s??? We can't take care of our most vulnerable people?

Prison is for criminals who have committed crimes not Mentally unwell people.

Why are people who have not been convicted of a crime in prison? How on earth can that happen?

The main issue is, the funding for mental health services is not enough. We need more accessible services without huge delays before seeing a professional.

more and more this country is going back to the Victorian era

When I had a mental health crisis 7 years ago I kept my suicidal thoughts to myself for fear of what would happen to me if I was sectioned. The more I hear about what happens to others the more I feel I think I did the right thing not reaching out. But I shouldn't have had to have kept my suicidal thoughts to myself to keep myself safe.

People forget that psychosis can happen to anyone. Leading to do very stupid things that leads to prisons

How this is not a national scandal?😮

"It sounds like something from another century, really." I couldn't agree more. This is absolutely diabolical like almost everything in the UK ranging from sewage being released into waterways, pathetic sentences for criminals, overly long NHS waiting times and now mental health patients being locked up and treated as if they were people being sent to a Victorian workhouse. All the more highlighted by the difference in care afforded to Charles as compared with ordinary citizens. The goal should be that the healthcare system is so good that royal or not, the level of care be no different. Here in Japan, whilst there is a level of 'postcode lottery', you can actually be treated in an area where that hospital is best in a certain medical area and I can say that I have sat in the same waiting room as former Prime Minister Mori and I'm a very, very lowly and ordinary resident of this country. This is how the system should be. I should say that the Imperial Family have their own medical team and clinic, but they are the only ones and for certain treatments, they too use the same hospitals as everyone else.

The nhs is already overstretched, with very low or no staffing levels on secure psych wards. Without nursing apprenticeship being extended to dedicated health care assistants to train as nurses, then you are just exposing more pressure on nhs forensics mental health units.

Thankyou channel 4 for highlighting this issue especially showing that people's treatment is being delayed/withheld because you can't force someone to take medication in a prison setting. This is cruel as it will prolong suffering, increase the damage done by the mental health issues and prolong the recovery. On an economic and humanity level it's just plain stupid.

Once again we are left with one question. after 14 years of Tory government, where has all our money gone? We are paying the highest taxes in 70 years and yet there’s apparently soo little money that we are recreating Victorian insane asylums because we can’t afford hospital beds for desperately ill people in dire need. Where Is All Our Money?!

There is no peace in this world.

This is exactly the kind of vicious situation you expect from a tory government

We are returning to Victorian Britain but worse!How many dementia patients are in Prison? That’s another story😟

This is just shocking. I cannot believe the absolute state of this country

It really sucks to have a mental illness. So few people will ever truly understand.

Yup, it’s shocking. The police have got no right to be dealing with mental health issues .

This is the same media that's told us prisons are like holiday camps?

My God. That's horrific

this is shocking & unacceptable . Hope something is done very soon.

I have multiple mental health issues. I spent the best part of half a day in a cell and it took the best part of a year to recover. I would not hang around if there was even a sniff of going in again.

Dont get me started on this subject hmp ranby back in 2002 had some very sick disturbed dangerous prisoners with serious mental health issues .the prison officers in hmp ranby would wind-up violent sick prisoners with mental health issues and watch them react like it was a cinema. The care system the school system and the prison system and racism and multiple trauma have made mental health so bad thank god for medications and therapy.

Miscarriages of justice also cause distress 🙏🕊️

And that’s supposed to be housing- incredible how when someone is diagnosed with something they lose their right to be a human being but a number to monetise in a jail prison cell like an animal put through torture in experiments mentally and physically restrained against their will.

The problem starts in the schools. Mentally ill children attacking TA's and Teaching assistants, and the meds to help them aren't available. Meanwhile education professionals leave, because of the stress.

We would never treat patients like this discusting😮😢

So disgusting shame on the government

not only is it not good for those with mental heath ,but also for others working there or in there because of crime .as some these people with mental illness are very dangerous

Again we can find the conservative government for this😮

The government needs to invest more in mental health. Children should be educated about mental health in secondary schools. I do feel for the prison system because how do the people working in there know the people are genuinely. Having mental health issues. And not faking it

Psych nurses aren't much better in hospital

😢 How sad

Condolences to the families of people were ultimately let down by mental health professionals and homes. With the benefit of hindsight, I sincerely hope that lessons will be learned this time and mental health safety procedures will be reviewed thoroughly and vigorously to ensure that this doesn't occur again. Resolve and meaningful dialogue, not the usual lip service given by conveyor belt, opportunistic career politicians or useless councillors

The main issue is Involuntary Servitude is cheaper than paying Min Wages - Capitalism is the driver. In the United States, the Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, “except as punishment for crime" In the United States, prisons can be privately owned. Therefore, it is MUCH MUCH cheaper to pay prisoners 86-93 cents per hour, as opposed to min wage ($7.25 USD per hour) You make MORE money, if you have MORE prisoners. Why not arrest people for possession of a plant? There are people in the states serving prison sentences for marijuana, in states where marijuana possession is now legal. Marijuana is legal in your state - why are you in jail? For possessing marijuana a few years ago...Yeah you are a slave. Just say you are a slave. How else are you going to have slaves? It's a lot cheaper to pick fruits and vegetables and press license plates when you only pay your slave 86 cents an hour. Min wage = $7.25 Prison Wage = 86-93 cents One min wage "human" is the equivalent to 8.4 "slaves" What's the main issue again? What would you rather have 2 people working for you with "rights" or 16.9 slaves doing the exact same work? AND you can punish your slave since they are already in prison.

Closed wards are not much different. It is one of the worst thing one can do to traumatized human beings who need love: freedom, attunement, relational healing, spiritual healing, physical healing, emotional healing, mental healing.

I worked in mental this is discusting

Let’s face it: we are all born a rock spinning at 1,000mph around a nuclear furnace 93,000 million miles away and, as far as it seems, it’s random, we’re just here and we might not be here at any point. Given this knowledge, I’m amazed to meet people who _don’t_ have mental health problems.

This is Britain’s Arkham Asylum from Batman.

Everything is broken because of the tories

''its not just anxiety and depression''. I get the point he was trying to make but that wasn't the thing to say. Anxiety and depression and be life changing.

Let's spend all our taxes on Mr Z and his friends, rather than fix the desperate state this country is in perhaps?

What a want to know is a person who has a mental condition. If prison isn’t the right place, residential units are full and hospitals are full, we’re are we meant to put them? As it’s crystal clear there’s no money for new facilities and they can’t be let out as they are a danger to society. What are we meant to do? That’s what I want to know

It’s sad when a government falls short in taking care of its most vulnerable citizens while paying attention to a very far away war zones!

What are you supposed to do with these people? They're trapped in the prisons of their own minds. They can't be left to wander, they can't be tranquilised. What do you do?

If their offences are the result of mental illness and they often are then what are they doing in prison to begin with? They need their mental health to be cared for and I don’t think a spell in jail will do that at all. It will just make the problem worse. Facts told straight.

Please don't forget what the criminal did to end up in prison.Not all mentally ill people go to prison.Some mentally ill people live a honest life. The judge who put the person in the mental health prison did an assessment and investing the crimes committed . Also looked at the victim of the criminal act. They are there for a reason.

Behold! The tory economic miracle!

Labour will sort it out and make it worse!

We know what they are doing, and its being watched.

Primitive. Englands gone feral thanks to torys.

Wow

The PM gets money and weapons to send to Ukraine and Israel. Why can't he spend it on these urgent issues? Oh, I forgot. Unless his wife does not invest in such business or enrich any Tories, then it is not worth doing. It is like we are living in Africa or India, where every politician is corrupt.

A policeman once called me mental case

Hi I have storey to share it's very very important about my uncle in prison now. i need help him other wise am gonna loose hem he safer from saver menal helth issue. Any one can help him to be transferred from h prison to an hospital. They want us to wait for 4-6 month to find a psychiatrist and with agin 2 month to provide the report.

I AM 22 BUT have developmental and intellectual disabilities to the point where I have the mind of a child. I can definitely be taken advantage of, and HAVE been manipulated, it’s really scary. I’m deemed in need of high support, I can’t get a job, I’m deemed non consenting, I don’t really have the capability to make choices for myself, I’m basically a kid. How I view the modern world is how a child would, I cant grasp super complicated subjects, i can’t cook, I can’t clean, on top of a whole other bunch of stuff that non disabled people take for granted, I like cartoons, I have meltdowns, I like Lego, toys, comic books, sweets, I still believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny (although nowadays watching cartoons are becoming less and less of a niesh I've noticed) I live with my mother who i'd be lost without, im asexual so i don't even WANT to partake in those types of acts with anyone. However mind you, little kids can get crushes too, their just different from adult or even teenage crushes, my first crush was a girl I knew on my street when I was 8, the reason I liked her was because we both liked Lego. It certainly wasn’t sexual or anything like that, it was just a crush I didn’t understand. Even now when I have a crush on someone it’s always in a very non sexual childlike way, I just wanna play with Lego and watch movies and be their for each other. I hate that autism to some people is just “special interest hehe quirky” when their exists autistic people who’s life are ACTUALLY negatively affected by it. Ive seen some kids learn something as a 12 year old but i cant even begin to comprehend it, My father abused me my entire life, he punched me and strangled me when he was angry, he alienated everyone in his family and even when I was diagnosed at age 12 he STILL didn’t even believe I had autism. Not to mention my Christian school would target me for bullying and targeted harassment because they knew I was too timid to tell giving me life long trauma, then had the gull to try and kick me out so they didn’t have to deal with me, which my father blamed me for, My mother eventually had the sense to throw my dad out of the house, which of course he blamed her for. He went on to start a brand new family to replace me. Yeah I had my nana who always cared and mom who did her best with her crappy circumstances so I at least had some resemblance of a support system.

This happened to me

Anybody watched Grave Encounters?

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It was the Tories fault for the bad state of prisons and mental health wards by cost cutting.

UK creaks at the seams

30 days in armley prison did my head right in , a day in there feels likes three days outside . Locked ina toilet with a another dude and a bunk beds two hard chairs and a table packed in a tiny cell for 23 hours a day's and all day Saturday and Sunday with a salad sandwich for Sunday dinner / tea . It's one big boring head f##k .. and I only did 30 days and I think they let me out two days early because no release on the weekend so let you out Friday if your release day is a weekend day . That was 2010 and I still have awful dreams that am back in there . I wake up and realise am at home and it was a dream my mind is flooded with relt that it just a dream . But the effect is real to the mind and body because my heart beat is racing untill the reality comes that am home ,,,, chill .

Is it true that a person who lives in a group home for the mentally ill ( Denham Place )and has committed a murder is then assessed by three psychiatrists ? If one Psychiatrist finds the person to be sane then he is sent to prison and not a secure hospital ? This is what happened ( I am told ) to a man called Zac from Cambridge after strangling a house resident. He spent most of his time hidden under his bedding in his room and the staff at his home knew that he was extremely mentally ill, He had also lost both his parents due to drug addiction.Why was he sent to prison ? Please would a psychologist look into his case, he was in Norwich prison and this happened in 2019.

nothign shock me about government workers lol

Oh well

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Ah yes, our cousins across the pond are catching up to the US it is then.

Everything going down since Conservative Party is in control.

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Nutritional deficiencies

Man thinks he's in a submarine not a prison, he's having a great time.

Shocking all the while asylum seekers in luxury hotels our most vulnerable are put to this!

What made them vulnerable in the first place? First class destitution with no potential in life is a major factor. As a white male diagnosed with psychosis in my early 20s, I've been through those loops. It's not a nice place to be and now I see more people in a deeper hole than what I was. I now see my friends being hit with the same thing 10 years on. While I was deemed crazy I now believe that actually I was absolutely correct in my assertions that they were trying to kill me.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith proves nothing.

Charities dickens party

I'm the first person watching this video thanks 😂

Too many things wrong with this, but also causality. Dysfunctional soceity is made of dysfuctional families. I am sure there are parallels in root causes of these mental issues.

This is what happens when a right wing party is in charge . Britain is s state.

Because they never arrived via boat...

People with these issues do need help but if there are no beds then prison is an option to keep these people away from the public. Unfortunately the UK government at this time are more concerned with keeping the illegal immigrants happy. The UK government are the problem. They always have been. Your votes are stopping these people getting help.

The blood stains on the floor un a women's prison? Someone was having het period! 😆

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