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SID SALTER: Jailing the mentally ill remains a shameful national, state practice

SID SALTER A fascinating report by the Virginia-based Treatment Advocacy Center shines a bright light on a very dark national problem that has long reached into Mississippi – the indiscriminate jailing and often warehousing of mental patients in jails. In the executive summary of the report, the problem is bluntly identified: “In 2016, nearly 400,000 inmates in U.S.

 

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