Mentally ill getting prison bars instead of hospital beds

Mentally ill getting prison bars instead of hospital beds

March 5, 2013 4:34 PM

Since the sharp reduction in public psychiatric hospital beds over the past decades, there has been a massive increase in severely mentally ill persons in jails and prisons across the country. John Miller reports.

Patients as prisoners, jails new mental health institutions
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