The U.S. has abandoned its moral responsibility to care for the mentally ill

Human Rights Watch

Mentally Ill Inmates Are Routinely Physically Abused, Study Says.  (The New York Times, 5/11/2015)

The study faulted prisons and jails for failing to offer sufficient mental health treatment; doing too little to protect mentally ill patients from physical abuse by staff members, who are often inadequately trained; and having leadership not sufficiently focused on mental health issues.

In addition.

There are now far more people with mental illnesses in prisons and jails than there are in state psychiatric hospitals

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