Approximately 20 percent of inmates in jails and 15 percent of inmates in state prisons have a serious mental illness. Based on the total number of inmates, this means that there are approximately 356,000 inmates with serious mental illness in jails and state prisons.

In 2018, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported that 14 percent of prisoners in state and federal facilities met the criteria for having serious mental health conditions. In local jails the number was 26 percent.

Only five percent of the general population meets those criteria, according to the BJS

this criteria are those men and women who have been diagnosed!

there are men in federal prison who mentally cant even tie their own shoes! men who cant feed themselves properly.. or shower without help! men on permanent sucide watch who get put in solitary confinement til release.