Back in the old days at API, when there were many beds instead of few, they also housed inmates there as well. That is where Charles Meach escaped from so he can murdered the kids at Russian Jack. When the old API was slowly being decommissioned, Dept of Corrections ended up taking up the slack. They created a housing unit called Mike Module at CIPT where mentally ill inmates were housed. They really didn't save any money, just transferred the responsibility. And now, DOC Alaska housed more mentally ill individuals then API ever will as other facilities got their own little Mike Modules. Correctional officers are not mental health experts. I worked 17 years in Mike Module myself and it wasn't until the last 10 I felt more or less comfortable understanding the concept of mental health. I had good teachers of course but my thought lies with the fact that you shouldn't have to go to jail to get long term mental health care and I think that is the way it works right now.