How many people are there in prison who actually have undiagnosed mental illness?

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Anyone with with any experience of this? I had a chat today with a mate who said it was a huge issue.

Really?

Thoughts please as I am really concerned and interested

I don't have any direct experience but I would imagine your friend is right. I know someone who works with serious offenders and she said the vast majority were abused as children, and I can well believe it and that they have some kind of mental health problems resulting from that. But then of course not all people who were abused as children go on to become serious offenders . It is a very interesting issue.