The below YouTube video is a decent overview of how, since the deinstitutionalization movement of the 70′s, the prisons and jails in the U.S. have been housing a large percentage of people who previously would have been in mental insitutions. It explains some of the challenges of providing mental health treatment behind bars. What it does not address, though, is the significant problem many mentally ill inmates face continuing their psychiatric treatment in the community after they are released.
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