THE RIGHT TO HEALTH IN PRISON: RESULTS OF A NATIONWIDE SURVEY AND REPORT Mental Health (Q: 2569) 3.34 Table 9 below shows that 69 per cent of male prisoners (3,130) stated they were healthy in terms of their mental health while 9 per cent (424 male prisoners) stated that they were unhealthy. 72 per cent of female prisoners (533) reported being mentally healthy. Table 9: Mental Health based on Gender Men Women Total Healthy mental level Satisfactory mental level Unhealthy mental level Total 196 (3.6% of the total 5479) No response Source: Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, 2014 3.35 According to the type of imprisonment, 60 per cent of prisoners on remand (568 prisoners) stated that they were mentally healthy while 17 per cent (158 prisoners) stated that they were unhealthy. Conversely, 72 per cent (3023) of sentenced prisoners answered that they were mentally healthy while 8 per cent (334) felt unhealthy in terms of their mental health (Table 10). Table 10: Mental Health based on Type of Imprisonment Remand Convicted Total Healthy mental level Satisfactory mental level Unhealthy mental level Total 305 (5.6% of the total 5479) No response 69 Source: Human Rights Commission of Malaysia, 2014 In question 25, respondents were asked about their mental health. Answer choices were either healthy, satisfactory or unhealthy. 44