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Florida Jails: State’s Largest Mental Health Providers
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2007
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2007, page 10
Florida Jails: State's Largest Mental Health Providers
Filed under:
Systemic Medical Neglect,
Mental Health,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
Florida.
by David M. Reutter
Florida's policy of allowing mentally ill citizens to languish without treatment until they have encounters with law enforcement has turned the state's county jails into the primary provider of mental health services. This has created fiscal and overcrowding problems, ...
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