Opinion: The insanity of how we do mental health care in Los Angeles County
On May 16, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to create a unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility to treat inmates with severe mental illness. The new Jail Inpatient Unit, also called the Acute Intervention Module, will have beds for inmates who are a danger to themselves or others.
How many? According to the supervisors’ motion, “approximately 6,800 inmates housed in County correctional facilities participate in jail mental health programs with varying levels of care and treatment.” We still have institutions. Once a mentally ill individual harms someone else, that lost soul can be tossed into the criminal justice system and locked up in a cell.Some people think so. Apparently Gov. Gavin Newsom is one of them, and politics may be the reason.
At the time, it was fashionable to believe that new prescription drugs for mental illness were so promising that no one would need to be institutionalized, and community clinics were the modern way.
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