Pan, Deanna. "TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences." Mother Jones. Mother Jones, 29 Apr. 2013. Web. 19 Sept. 2013.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
The Third of the Fabled Factoid Fridays
The fact: There are roughly 320,000 seriously mentally ill people in prisons and jails this year and there are only about 100,000 beds for psychiatric patients in hospitals and mental institutions. Which means there are almost 3 times as many people with serious mental disorders in prisons as there are in proper health care facilities.
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