The New Asylums (full documentary) | Are Prisons the New Mental Hospitals? | FRONTLINE

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Nearly half a million people in America’s prisons and jails were dealing with mental illness in 2005. FRONTLINE examined mental …

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@patiaurelio1990 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Dam

@Kelly-h1s3b February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

I don't have an emergency contact and I also live with mental health. Thank God my ex left me for not taking my meds. I've been on meds almost two years solid, the longest since being diagnosed 24 years ago.

@ConnorLouJones February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Cops treat everything like a pissing contest and force people to comply. It’s always comply do what we say. Cops don’t care they don’t try to deescalate

@timfrank7461 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Dont worry it's gotten WORSE

@HD-nc7yu February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

This is heartbreaking

@fluxfaze February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

The halls of U.S. government are where insanity dwells and swells.

@Wildcard4u February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Prisons are Profitable. Mental health is not. Follow the money.🤑 Always follow the M.O.N.E.Y. 💀🤑

@Gieves244 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Germany used to have best way to work with these people.

@acnyc12NYC February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

America with all its wealth is one of the cruelest countries and its people continue to support in its trend since it became a nation. Hearing all, from security guard, Warden and bottom of the barrel "'therapist" gave little confidence these people are in good hands. Appalling.

@atozentertainment9828 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Id say the number is far higher than that!

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@mojojeinxs9960 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Nursing homes and assisted living also has to deal with residents with mental illness housed with frail elderly.

@Livingthedream333 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

You should’ve listened to the words, of the inmates. This documentary told you a story but your eyes should’ve told you a different one

@gregoryfuzi4745 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Jimmy Cole

@kim330 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

This is so sad to see all these individuals suffer like this. Yes maybe they deserve to be in prison but just so sad and devastating to watch

@howardgofstein7366 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Where I worked, which I wish I could name w/o fear of reprisals, we had worthless, overpaid executives who came up with stupid rules about petty things—while the other 99% of us did actual work for minimal pay. Things that needed serious consideration were never addressed. And when you asked questions, supervisors looked at you like you had five heads.

@howardgofstein7366 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

8:20 You get used to having feces thrown at you??

@howardgofstein7366 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

I worked at a community mental health agency for 21 years and we were treated like last week’s fish wrap—while the idiots at the top got paid a fortune for doing absolutely nothing.

@mariekatherine5238 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

We NEED to reopen the asylums. These men do NOT belong in prison. Asylums must actually treat the patients under close supervision. The asylums cannot become snake pits as before.

@JosePadilla-tf9um February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Do you know that the USA government is making the same thing that the CHINA'S government the ORGANS HARVESTING to make money
Just take care about the hospital Denver health because they are a foucking shit of culture unscrupulous cowards murders psychopaths RATS of ORGANS.

@MarcusElliot February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Excellent Video and all prisons should have this help.

@RaymondEllis-kz8td February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

😊

@JacklinTerry-Lathan February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Prisons are the new asylums, because that’s probably the first time they have been diagnosed, not to mention meds, and some counseling.

@imb2749 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Sus. Mga tamad lang yang mga yan! Mga nakatikim ng droga tapos akala nila tungkol nalang doon yung buhay! Ang gagalimg mag panggap..😅

@chelseymdavis3 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

The first man you see in this video broke my heart. Hearing him say that he doesn't have any family to call is such an awful reality. To be suffering from mental health issues with no support… that's rough. I hope and pray that he has found a mentor or someone who genuinely cares for him & his wellbeing. So many people in the world don't realize how lucky they are just to have family & people to turn to in a time in need. & then you have the other half of people, who have people who care & they completely take advantage of the fact that they have a loving support system to help them navigate their hardships.

@KnockOut242 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

It’s horrible to treat a human being this way. It’s so sad, so unfair, a horrible life.

@femalephobia February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

The system sets these people up for failure! Please look for help for these people before letting them out. No where enough mental health treatment, and not soon enough, also not affordable. Totally fudge upđŸ¤¯đŸ¤Ŧ

@Serinussamurai500 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am
@Serinussamurai500 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am
@Serinussamurai500 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

3 hots & a Cot. These men are twisted , sadly

@CtyCmt6117 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

I been there..JAIL makes people worse, n always will. Thats what keeps the SYSTEM running…

@marieGallt February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Because the office of mental health is a joke. They would rather have them in state hospitals or locked up. It's easier to have them locked down than go into a community where you really have to put in the work. Our communities do not want to pay for transitional housing and support.

@terrabranf0rd February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

i was worried for bipolar condition people. lol right away THEY ARE SCHIZOPHRENIC. oh right

@stlstg February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

"Why have prisons become the new asylums?" Because liberals told you that we aren't allowed to involuntary commit people to an asylum. And enough people fell for that stupidity and that left people that needed help, with nowhere to go. So prison is where they end up. Bring back asylums and you start to solve this problem.

@tristanvogel7034 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

16 years for snatching a purse is crazy. You can murder someone today and get 2 years. Times a change.

@ClarkCook-f3h February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

This is old video. It’s absolutely out of control now.

@kathyjones274 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Thank you Ronald regan for nothing, he destroyed our mental health system only to be one of the rich guys dying with dementia and well taken care of.

@VaseemPasha-k3b February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Vaseempasha matala

@VaseemPasha-k3b February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Vaseempasha

@douglaspaterson5269 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Just let them roam free and let every aspiring Daniel Penny get themâ€ŧī¸đŸ™ˆđŸ™‰đŸ™Š

@johnhynes43 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

We don't have a mental health system in this country anymore and it is Sad! Our son is level 3 Autistic and we worry about his future when we die. In America,there are three choices for the working class in our case .
1. The streets, which he wouldn't survive long.
2 Prison, same results.
3. Death

@Mark-gg6iy February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Thanks Ronald Reagan and Republicans.

@Scottallen8909 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

From what I have seen I think the new asylum system is the streets sleeping in tents. I don’t really understand why they shut down the asylum system but I think they should really rethink what we need to do differently for the people who are living homeless and in a world of misery.

@trevorstepoo8838 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Prisoners strictly security not mental health

@LindaHamm-b7p February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

Mental health beds are a !it cheaper than prison beds

@Rafael_1965 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

It is believed that Reagan shutdown many mental hospitals… we need prison reform.

@AharonZekmeister February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

How much really is this from that of the Dark Ages? How far from those times have we come? Not too far I don't think.

@frankiefreeman2001 February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

My grandfather worked at our city state hospital as a janitor he said our whole lives they never should have closed state hospitals because mentally sick people will end up in our jails an he was absolutely correct it’s so sad. To see this they should have been regulated and have accreditations for better care it would have been a lot better than just closing all of them an leaving the sick to their own devices and world. He was right on so many issues he died last year at 97 years old ❤

@Apache-h1t February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

I was a CNA..in Pennsylvania during the pandemic..
..seen all this and jails are a dumping ground..
.. still dealing with trauma of watching people not getting treatment..
..its going to get worse..!
.. quote me!!

@Apache-h1t February 22, 2025 - 11:21 am

American healthcare…
..is proper Gestapo policy..
..get the PDF
..smfhđŸ˜ĸ

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