The Detroit Free Press Article, “The New Asylum”

November 27, 2011 – Jeff Gerritt’s column in The Detroit Free Press

“After closing psychiatric hospitals, Michigan incarcerates mentally ill”

Over the last two decades, changes in state policy and big cuts in funding for community mental health care have pushed hundreds of thousands of mentally ill people into county jails and state prisons.

 

The New Asylum, The Detroit Free Press 11-27-11

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