Bryan A. Brown Watch their diet or watch men riot 4/30/15
Sabatino Mangini ENG COMP I
A young man lays with his back on his bed. He is in a confined space, a cell no bigger than 20x20 feet. He is engulfed in an abyss, nothing but darkness embracing him. He is locked away for 23 out of 24 hours in a day. It’s been over a week since the last time he has been out. He can’t tell when it’s night or when it’s day, only the random times he is let out his cell. Time flows slowly expect when he is let out so that he can do his ADLs. A perpetual pungent smell reminds him that the cell hasn’t been cleaned since its unholy conception. Worst of all for him, it’s as if he just woke one day and just appeared here, which makes the experience all the more terrifying.
What he does know at least is that this misery has no end in sight. He tries to get answers from the rare interactions he has with individuals but all they do is stare at him, call him crazy, and give him strange pills and scarps for some type of nourishment. Nourishment that, in a way, could have saved him from himself or dulled his afflictions that perturbed him so well that it lead him here. What I am writing about is a person that I have no affiliation with, only a script that I have seen on television. However, these scripts are based on true stories.
A growing number of research reports suggests that a poor diet is a contributing factor for an inmate’s mental disorder, which may have played a major role in their very incarceration. The main mental disorders that I would like to focus on are the ones that law abiding deal with on a day-to-day basis and some that we don’t: Anxiety, depression, mania, and schizophrenia. Before I talk about these mental disorders and the certain diets that may stimulate them, it is appropriate to talk about the prison populous represented by the mentally ill.
Prisons and jails are overpopulated and overstressed from the constant addition of new prisoners. Research suggests that many individuals incarcerated suffer from mental illness. According to the Bureau of Justice Statics Special Report on “Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates” (James, Glaze), at midyear 2005 more than half of all prison and jail inmates had a mental health problem, including
Sabatino Mangini ENG COMP I
A young man lays with his back on his bed. He is in a confined space, a cell no bigger than 20x20 feet. He is engulfed in an abyss, nothing but darkness embracing him. He is locked away for 23 out of 24 hours in a day. It’s been over a week since the last time he has been out. He can’t tell when it’s night or when it’s day, only the random times he is let out his cell. Time flows slowly expect when he is let out so that he can do his ADLs. A perpetual pungent smell reminds him that the cell hasn’t been cleaned since its unholy conception. Worst of all for him, it’s as if he just woke one day and just appeared here, which makes the experience all the more terrifying.
What he does know at least is that this misery has no end in sight. He tries to get answers from the rare interactions he has with individuals but all they do is stare at him, call him crazy, and give him strange pills and scarps for some type of nourishment. Nourishment that, in a way, could have saved him from himself or dulled his afflictions that perturbed him so well that it lead him here. What I am writing about is a person that I have no affiliation with, only a script that I have seen on television. However, these scripts are based on true stories.
A growing number of research reports suggests that a poor diet is a contributing factor for an inmate’s mental disorder, which may have played a major role in their very incarceration. The main mental disorders that I would like to focus on are the ones that law abiding deal with on a day-to-day basis and some that we don’t: Anxiety, depression, mania, and schizophrenia. Before I talk about these mental disorders and the certain diets that may stimulate them, it is appropriate to talk about the prison populous represented by the mentally ill.
Prisons and jails are overpopulated and overstressed from the constant addition of new prisoners. Research suggests that many individuals incarcerated suffer from mental illness. According to the Bureau of Justice Statics Special Report on “Mental Health Problems of Prison and Jail Inmates” (James, Glaze), at midyear 2005 more than half of all prison and jail inmates had a mental health problem, including