We need to reopen mental institutions

I’m a detention officer in Oklahoma I’ve been doing this for years but over time the mental cases that have came in have been climbing and climbing. We only have one real mental institution in Oklahoma that we send inmates to and that’s vanita and they never have any beds available. At this point we have a full cell block of people that are waiting on a bed and have been waiting for months at this point.

The public gets outraged that we treat the mental inmates badly but in all honesty we treat them better than a lot of places will but we’re just not able to effectively deal with a lot of mental illnesses. I just don’t really understand why they closed all of the mental institutions