Prisons act as a total institution where inmates are put on a strict schedule and fall under one of the most horrific forms of social control. For this reason, many inmates are rebelling, forcing prisons to tighten security and impose stricter punishments. As a result, less effort was made to help mentally ill inmates. The term panopticon, coined by Bentham, illustrates the concept that prison design would allow guards to see inside the cells but would not allow prisoners to see outside. Thus, this would allow the guards to have omniscient power over the inmates. Fortunately, it never functioned as a prison, but the prison did create a sort of panopticon of mental health. This allows parents with mental illnesses to always feel observed; similar to that of an experiment. Despite prisons' efforts to serve all inmates equally to the best of their abilities, the overemphasis on safety and punishment has led to a panopticon of mental health. As a result, prison environments have exacerbated negative behaviors, created an inhumane environment for inmates, and lack resources to support mental health. First, the prison system exacerbates negative behaviors such as drug use, self-harming behaviors, and suicidal thoughts and actions. One of the most significant ways in which the prison community exacerbates drug use, self-harm behaviors, and suicidal thoughts is by providing minimal harm reduction. Accordingly, Lines notes that higher cases of HIV/HVD and other communicable diseases are a cause of mental health problems in prison, these harm reduction measures would improve the overall health of individuals in prison (Lines et al. 2005). So, prion systems all intersect: just like society, the happier the middle of the paper, the better it functions. Instilling fear in people helps change behaviors to some extent, but it ends up creating prisons with exacerbated negative behaviors in humiliating and unsuitable environments. Works Cited Brown, Michelle. (2012). Empathy and punishment. Punishment & Society 14(4): 383-401. Lamb, H. Richard., Weinberger, Linda E., & Gross, Bruce H. (2004). People with mental illness in the criminal justice system: Some perspectives. Psychiatric Quarterly 75(2): 107-126. Lines, Rick., Jurgens, Ralf., Betteridge, Glenn. and Stover, Heino. (2005). Taking action to reduce the harm linked to drug injection in prison: evidence of the effectiveness of Out of Control [Episode of the television series]. (2010). In The Fifth Domain. Radio-Canada. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/episodes/2009-2010/out-of-control Sapers, H. (2008). A preventable death. Available at: http://www.oci-bec.gc.ca/rpt/index-eng.aspx