Although court-supervised treatment is new, “In a frequently cited evaluation of four mental health courts in California, Minneapolis, and Indianapo-lis , 49 percent of participants were rearrested after 18 months, compared to 58 percent of mentally disordered defendants in the conventional justice system. [...] seeing nearly half of a program's participants rearrested does not seem like a resounding success"(Glazer 247). This has made progress; there are still some issues to resolve. As co-author Allison Redlich, associate professor of criminal justice at the State University of New York, Albany, says, "This population has earned the name 'frequent flyers' [because of the frequency of their arrests, [so any type of reduction can be a success. [...] Trying to understand how and for whom they work is where we should focus our efforts” (qtd. in Glazer 247). We have about fifty five years of accumulated mental illness problems, current solutions for the mentally ill in prison are just an easy escape from exploring our rotten penal system.