However individuals with disabilities face systemic barriers in society. As a result, people with disabilities who are low-income or with other intersecting forms of discrimination, are at a disproportionate risk of poverty, homelessness, profiling by and involvement with police, and a disproportionate number of people in prisons have mental health issues. In addition, people with mental illness could in certain circumstances be placed in involuntary detention or face other deprivations of liberty, but are frequently unable to obtain the mental health services needed.
