There are ten times as many people with serious mental illness in our jails and prisons as in our psychiatric hospitals. What is done to them in prison—including crowded conditions, victimization, inadequate mental health care and too often long stints in solitary confinement—makes them all the more disturbed and dysfunctional when they are released.
Three Easy Criminal Justice Reforms
Changes that would reduce the number of people with mental illness behind bars.
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