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Subject: Re: Mentally ill inmate dies in prison


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Chris
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Date Posted: 09/ 5/06 7:22pm
In reply to: Greta 's message, "Re: Mentally ill inmate dies in prison" on 09/ 5/06 4:10pm

A little over a year ago there was a Frontline special called The New Aslyums. If they ever rerun it, you might want to watch. It tells how a huge number of the prison population is now just housed mentally ill that they don't know what to do with. Eventually the people are set free with only a couple weeks of meds and told to try and find a source to keep supplying their medications. When they can't they turn to crime and end up back in prison.

When local inmates are turned out to the public the county agency I work for gets their call, that they need meds and they will be out of meds in two weeks. Well, we can get them in, and we even have free meds, but we also have a two month waiting list, if not more. We are understaffed because of lack of State funds, and by the State cutting grants that we were counting on. We just lost one psychiatrist recently because it wasn't in our budget.

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