In the news again; I cannot tell you how many mentally ill people there are in prisons and they should not be there.

These are the enormous and serious problems of society being ignored by the Government because they don't make good, simplistic tabloid headline slogans.

Surely those working in Prisons should be lobbying MPs about this scandal.

It is deeply disturbing that we got rid of Pysch hospitals to replace them with......prisons.

You are totally right JK. I hate to think how disturbing it must be in a prison to see this going on.

I'd check your facts re prisons replacing hospitals.

Again-this mirrors exactly what is happening in Australia which now takes up whatever trend is current in the UK as a blueprint.

Goverments long ago abandoned good mental health facilities in the so-called putting people back into the community concept ( which often just doesn't work ). Usually it's often just a land grab-hospitals specialising in the mentally ill just happened to be in very good inner city areas..I know one just off Kensington High Street that had property developers salivating over it's value..now it's a luxury block of apartments. No idea where the patients-full-time or day were shuffled off to ( most likely some end up in jail)

You will find the police are pretty furious about all this-they are increasingly acting as mental health workers themselves dealing with the mentally ill when specialists should be called but there just isn't the manpower.