Jails and prisons now hold more mentally ill people than mental institutions

Evidence

There are currently more people with mental and emotional disorders in jails and prisons than in mental institutions. This call for new facilities designed to assist poor people should not be taken as an appeal to reinstitute the old system of mental institutions, which were— and in many cases still are—as repressive as the prisons. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 285

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth checking the current ratio of mentally ill in jails vs. hospitals.
• XREF: connects to: Women have been punished more through psychiatric institutions than prisons — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 175; Mass incarceration did not lower crime but bred more prisons

Related

• Women have been punished more through psychiatric institutions than prisons (similarity 0.81)
• Prisons function as criminal training centers and a just society would not need them (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Mass incarceration did not lower crime but bred more prisons #expands (0.50)