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"Our jails and prisons should no longer be asylums"

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FLORIDA MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM NEEDS REFORMby Stephen Grimes, Major B. Harding, Joseph Leander Shaw, Ben F. Overton and Parker Lee McDonaldThe Naples Daily News, © 2008 The E.W. Scripps Co.Annually, as many as 125,000 people with mental illnesses requiring immediate treatment are arrested and booked into Florida jails. And on any given day, more than 70,000 individuals with serious mental illnesses reside in Florida?s jails and prisons or are under correctional supervision in the community. Frequently, these individuals enter the justice system as the result of committing relatively minor offenses that are directly related to symptoms of acute, untreated mental illnesses. Unfortunately, many of these individuals find that they are either denied community-based care or that the care they do receive is fragmented and insufficient to adequately respond to their level of need...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on March 12, 2008 (boomark / email).