Test Your Knowledge: Mental Health in the American Criminal Justice System

What is a widespread problem in American prisons that is worse for mentally afflicted individuals?

Mentally afflicted prisoners have a noticeably higher suicide rate than other prisoners.

Inmates with mental health disorders are how likely to return to prison at least once?

What % of mentally afflicted individuals will likely spend some point in their lives in prison?

How expensive do you think incarcerating people with serious mental illnesses in 2017 was?

Many mentally ill individuals awaiting trial have committed violent crimes; for those in prisons, they are serving time for those crimes

There isn't a lot that can be done about the situation taking COVID and the worse states of prisons into consideration