Mental health and incarceration

Ideas for this policy paper topic include but are not limited to:
1. Policy for women and children
2. Policy for LGBTQ
3. Income security and the policies that include retirement, disability, death, and unemployment
4. TANF and drug testing
5. Social Security
6. Education (e.g. Head Start and free tuition)
7. Mental health treatment and incarceration
8. Poverty
9. Child abuse and protection
Requirements
You must use at minimum 3 scholarly resources for this policy paper. Wikipedia, Ask.com, and other non-scholarly sources of information will not be accepted. If you are in doubt about the reliability of a resource, ask your instructor.
Topics that must be addressed in this policy paper include
1. Brief introduction to the policy problem;
2. History of social welfare policy in this area;
3. Alternative proposals to address this problem (a minimum of two alternatives must be included);
4. Rational policy analysis of the alternatives;
5. Political ramifications of each alternative; 6. Summary/conclusion.