The mentally-ill men shown here seemed to have health care options at their disposal and I doubt that is true for many 'sane' ex-convicts fresh from the pin.

He described parole officers as being uncaring and only concerned about ex-cons not coming up dirty. He described prisons as being very miserly with providing resources. Someone very dear to me has done lots of prison time. The exclusion of women in this documentary may rub some viewers the wrong way. Fair enough, but while women only make up a fraction of inmates, I once read that female inmates have extraordinarily complex issues. One interviewee said this problem mostly affects men. As an African-American progressive, I would like to see more Blacks enter professions where they can help these people in need. The experts interviewed included whites and Blacks. This work shows white and Black male ex-convicts in approximately equal numbers. However, if experts know they will be destructive without their meds, then why hasn't the law or legislators forced them to take them? One big problem for these men is that they freely chose to stop taking their meds. The victims of these men are not interviewed here and something tells me this documentary would upset them greatly.

Of course, that stuff can't be tolerated in a functional society. This work didn't answer something I need to know: 'Do we give resources to the severely mentally ill to help them or to reduce their harm to society?' Some of the crimes committed by these men include robbery, assault, property damage, domestic violence, etc. This work has my mental wheels spinning it presented fewer facts than it made me ask a ton of questions. This work focused on those with severe problems who keep entering and exiting prison. The documentary states that of the 700,000 inmates released from American prisons each year, half of them have mental disabilities.

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