This article I reas was interesting to me it talks about Mentally ill End Up In Texas Prisons The article explains that they're more people in person in jail that have mental illness and it does in psychiatric hospitals according to the news study by http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/ according to the Treatment Advocacy Center and National Sheriffs Association.
The reseachers were doing a study of person that had serious mental illness being in jail or prison as oppose to a psychiatric hospital. The assumption was that 16 percent of the country's jail and prison inmates are serious mentally ill.
The odds were over all 50 states averaged 3.2 to 1 in 2004-05 meaning that their were 3 times more people with mental illness in jails and prisons that in psychiatric hospitals.
In Texas, the odds were 7.8 to 1 in that time period the third-worst odds fot the mentally ill, folloeing Nevada and Arizona.
The only state that were odd 1 to 1 was North Dakota, meaning people with mental illness were just likely to be a psychiatric hospital as they were prisons.
The Mentally ill ended up in Texas prisons also because they're are not enough room for the inmates to be in prison so they send them to other jails and prisons. Psychiatric hospitals are no longer the place to house mostly mentally ill inmates they are housing them in jail or in prison are which takes me to another article that I was reading which was http://www.texastribune.org/texas-state-agencies/state-commission-on-jail-standards/crowded-jails-becoming-health-hazards/ on why they're overcrowded with mentally ill inmates in prison and jails than in psychiatric hospital.
If they is some sort of why that they can build some more centers, jails or prisons to house most of these inmates then it would not be overcrowded, but at the same time it's our tax dollars on building up more facilities for inmates that have mental illnesses and the crimes are getting worse, people are going to jail. Some don't support building facilites for these people they dont want to have to pay with our tax dollars they rather put their tax dollars on something else or keep they're tax dollars in their pocket.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
Number of Austinites living in poverty increases in 2009
I was reading an article and it was talking about the Number of Austinites living in poverty increases in 2009.
Residents in Austin lived in poverty in 2009 the increase were mostly from families and young children from the census bureau. The American Community Survey http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acsbr09-1.pdf which was based on a nationwide sampling of U.S. households, the percentage for people in austin last year was 18.4 percent and in 2008, it was up from 17.1 percent.
From the article their were more austinites living in poverty in 2009 said the City of Austin demographer Ryan Robinson. Among families poverty rose from 11.9 percent to 13.5 percent during the same period. The most worst cases were among children from what Analysts says.
The census bureau estimates 27 percent of related children under 18 and 31.5 percent of related children under 5 lived in poverty in 2009. There were 5 and 6 percent increases in 2008.
With the city's fast and growing majority of Hispanics were more likely than blacks, Asians and non-Hispanic Whites to be in poverty, compared to 22.3 percent of African Americans, 8.6 percent of Asians and 11.4 percent of non-Hispanic Whites.
After reading this article about Austinites living in poverty had increased in 2009 I see that the number had increased in 2009 than in 2008. There were more poverty in 2009. Then at the end of the article the data was done by race. I'm thinking the numbers are not accurate, but somewhat close. Thats not including the people that didn't do a census form and didn't report income.
I looked up the Poverty: 2008 and 2009 American Community Survey Briefs and explains the Highlights, How Poverty is Measured, Talks about the Percentage of People in Poverty in the Past 12 Months by State and Puerto Rico: 2009 thats just by state.
Another article can be found at More people living in poverty in Austin survey finds
Residents in Austin lived in poverty in 2009 the increase were mostly from families and young children from the census bureau. The American Community Survey http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/acsbr09-1.pdf which was based on a nationwide sampling of U.S. households, the percentage for people in austin last year was 18.4 percent and in 2008, it was up from 17.1 percent.
From the article their were more austinites living in poverty in 2009 said the City of Austin demographer Ryan Robinson. Among families poverty rose from 11.9 percent to 13.5 percent during the same period. The most worst cases were among children from what Analysts says.
The census bureau estimates 27 percent of related children under 18 and 31.5 percent of related children under 5 lived in poverty in 2009. There were 5 and 6 percent increases in 2008.
With the city's fast and growing majority of Hispanics were more likely than blacks, Asians and non-Hispanic Whites to be in poverty, compared to 22.3 percent of African Americans, 8.6 percent of Asians and 11.4 percent of non-Hispanic Whites.
After reading this article about Austinites living in poverty had increased in 2009 I see that the number had increased in 2009 than in 2008. There were more poverty in 2009. Then at the end of the article the data was done by race. I'm thinking the numbers are not accurate, but somewhat close. Thats not including the people that didn't do a census form and didn't report income.
I looked up the Poverty: 2008 and 2009 American Community Survey Briefs and explains the Highlights, How Poverty is Measured, Talks about the Percentage of People in Poverty in the Past 12 Months by State and Puerto Rico: 2009 thats just by state.
Another article can be found at More people living in poverty in Austin survey finds
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Perry: Lessons learned from storms past
Gov. Rick Perry, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTER
http://www.statesman.com/
Two years there was a Hurricane, Hurricane Ike its destroyed trees the trees were were uprooted cities were flooded and homes.Hurricane Ike devasted schools and churches, businessess and farmes, communitites and families alike.
The progress had been made in rebuilding, both property and lives. We also learned from the past experiences, we learn to pre-position our resources at the point of attack, so when Ike hit the shores of Galveston in the early hours of Sept 13, 2008 the first responders-including Texas Task Force 1 and 2 Texas Military Forces-were in the place to rescued, checks were conducted on nearly 6,000 others.
When we saw the impact of the Hurricanes on the amimals and livestock left behind during storm evacutions,we created the state Animals Response Team, tasked with caring for and controlling these animals effectively and humanely.
The guiding principle thought is the local people know best how to deal with local problems, and its up to the state to do everything possible to help these officals responed quickly and get assistance to the people in harm's way.
In this article I agree with what its saying about the help from the people to clean up after the Hurricane Ike and after Katrina the people that where hit by it. The people were familiar because the people that were hit by it and again with Ike. The local people know how to best to deal with this problem. And the people had the instinct to help comes naturally to texans where the neighbors helping other neighbors is more than saying, it's saying a way of life. Volunteers even came to help clean up the trees, rubish around the neighborhood. Their were even people came to people stranded stranded in its aftermath.
http://www.statesman.com/
Two years there was a Hurricane, Hurricane Ike its destroyed trees the trees were were uprooted cities were flooded and homes.Hurricane Ike devasted schools and churches, businessess and farmes, communitites and families alike.
The progress had been made in rebuilding, both property and lives. We also learned from the past experiences, we learn to pre-position our resources at the point of attack, so when Ike hit the shores of Galveston in the early hours of Sept 13, 2008 the first responders-including Texas Task Force 1 and 2 Texas Military Forces-were in the place to rescued, checks were conducted on nearly 6,000 others.
When we saw the impact of the Hurricanes on the amimals and livestock left behind during storm evacutions,we created the state Animals Response Team, tasked with caring for and controlling these animals effectively and humanely.
The guiding principle thought is the local people know best how to deal with local problems, and its up to the state to do everything possible to help these officals responed quickly and get assistance to the people in harm's way.
In this article I agree with what its saying about the help from the people to clean up after the Hurricane Ike and after Katrina the people that where hit by it. The people were familiar because the people that were hit by it and again with Ike. The local people know how to best to deal with this problem. And the people had the instinct to help comes naturally to texans where the neighbors helping other neighbors is more than saying, it's saying a way of life. Volunteers even came to help clean up the trees, rubish around the neighborhood. Their were even people came to people stranded stranded in its aftermath.
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