Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons
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Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons
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People with mental illnesses are over-represented in jail and prison populations in the United States relative to the general population. There are three times as many mentally ill people in jails and prisons than in hospitals in the United States. Mentally ill people are subjected to solitary confinement at disproportionate rates compared to the general prison population. There are a number of reasons for this over-representation of mentally ill people in jails and prisons, including the deinst
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentally_ill_people_in_United_States_jails_and_prisons
date created:
2015-04-20T03:57:53Z
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2024-09-02T00:43:46Z
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