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Psychological Disorders in the News

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on June 1, 2010 at 11:36:01 am

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Severely Mentally Ill Persons More Likely to be in Jails than Hospitals, State Data Shows Treatment Advocacy Center's 50-State Report Reveals Mentally Ill Persons Three Times More Likely to Be in Correctional Institutions Than Psychiatric Hospitals (CNBC, May 12, 2010)

"Americans with severe mental illnesses are three times more likely to be in jail or prison than in a psychiatric hospital."

Link to the original report dated May, 2010 (PDF).

Good videos to accompany this article would be Frontline's The New Asylums and the follow-up to that episode, The Released. Both are available for free viewing online. Links to those videos can be found on the Psychological Disorders Videos page.

Discussion questions: Why is this a problem? What does this data say about American attitudes toward mental illness?