What prisons can and can't do in battling the mental health crisis: Trey Gowdy

Trey Gowdy gives his take on drug courts and the challenges facing mental health services in prisons on 'The Trey Gowdy Podcast.'

And, you know, jails – so, I'm all for it. Some do not. We'll have a whole other discussion about the quality of the service provided. If you were a top-flight psychiatrist, would you want to go work in a corrections facility? Is that the clientele that you would most want to have? I would not if that were me, but I'm not. 

So the real question to me, I think, is not whether we have it or not. You could ask whether we have enough of it. The real issue that I have seen is you cannot make people attend sessions. I guess you can make them be present, but you can't make them participate. You can't make them take medication. You can't make people do what doctors and therapists suggest or tell them to do. That's true, inside a prison and outside of prison.