About
About Trapped
The goal when deciding to publish Trapped: Mental Illness in America’s Prisons was to uncover the mental health crisis in America. Just as the intro states, the system is trapped with treating this growing population and the mentally ill often find themselves trapped in the system with nowhere else to go. In order to show this struggle, Jenn Ackerman went inside the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit, the largest treatment facility in Kentucky. While prison might not be the best place for the mentally ill, this program at the Kentucky State Reformatory is adapting to the meet the needs of this growing population in the prison system.