Connecting the Mentally Ill to Treatment – Not Jail
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Why are so many people with mental illness in jail? If your immediate answer is, “Because they’ve committed a crime” – you’ll be surprised (and hopefully chagrined) to learn that’s often not the case. Plenty of people with mental illness who’ve never broken a law or harmed anyone (other than themselves) enter the criminal justice […]