Thank you for your article regarding the situation of the mentally ill in the prisons. This is very well said. I noticed the situation thirty years ago when a homeless man took me on a tour one night in Seattle. People who once were being helped (and then the programs had shut down) were all piled into old degraded apt buildings with no furniture. I went from room to room of depressed people with nothing. Thirty years later I see by your article the direction it has gone since closing down programs and housing for the mentally ill in the United States.

Clearly this is an insane handling when considering also the cost difference between helping them on the outside, or supporting them in the prisons; and considering this handling fosters greater statistics and bigger situations for the future. Your article says it all.

I want to thank all of you for your work and care here for our brothers and sisters having a tough time, and for letting us know about this.

I had to face a tough situation out in the environment once wherein there was nothing I could do about it; the situation was protected at the top. A question was posed to me from a spiritual source: when you find yourself in a burning city, do you go back in to find out who started it, or do you head out gathering others along the way?

I am inspired by your article to help some of these people. I'm sure that any one us with a heart and God as our inspiration could do a lot to help one person feel better about them self and rise into a higher ground of sanity. It is definitely worth trying.

The Bible has all the answers of how to get through these times we are in now. Any of us who are Christians can share these answers with those with no answers to bring them up into the light of not feeling alone, feeling supported and valuable, of finding a purpose and rising out of the ashes. So I'm going to look into this.

Thank you again for your work and sharing this information!