New York Times :: Study Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Inmates Mentally Ill
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> As many as one in five of the 2.1 million Americans in jail
> and prison are seriously mentally ill, far outnumbering the
> number of mentally ill who are in mental hospitals,
> according to a comprehensive study released Tuesday.
>
> The study, by Human Rights Watch, concludes that jails and
> prisons have become the nation's default mental health
> system, as more state hospitals have closed and as the
> country's prison system has quadrupled over the past 30
> years. There are now fewer than 80,000 people in mental
> hospitals, and the number is continuing to fall.

Outsourcing psychological disorder -- one way to hide a costly problem.
posted by Tomohiro Idokoro @ 10:38 AM

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