Enlarge this image The Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center in Plymouth houses men for court-mandated addiction treatment. Robin Lubbock/WBUR hide caption…
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Enlarge this image Lt. Ryan Snyder, who works at the Champaign County jail in Illinois, says it’s hard for any such facility…
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Behind Bars, Mentally Ill Inmates Are Often Punished For Their Symptoms
by Dave Davies July 10, 2018Enlarge this image Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images Roy Scott/Getty Images/Ikon Images Roth has visited jails in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and…
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Big Jump In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California
by Anna Gorman May 4, 2018Enlarge this image An average of 13,776 inmates in the 45 California counties were on psychotropic medications in 2016-2017, a recent report…
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Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California
by Anna Gorman May 4, 2018Enlarge this image An average of 13,776 inmates in 45 California counties were on psychotropic medications in 2016-2017, a recent report found.…
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Enlarge this image By some estimates, nearly half of the people confined in U.S. jails and prisons have a mental illness, notes…
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Enlarge this image Kara Salim, 26, got out of the Marion County, Indiana, jail in 2015 with a history of domestic-violence charges,…