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Mental Illness and Jails, Race is Left out of the Equation
Loaded on July 13, 2015
by James Kilgore
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Jail Specific,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
United States of America.
Mental Illness and Jails, Race is Left out of the Equation
By James Kilgore, Truthout
In 1843, social justice crusader Dorothea Dix went before the Massachusetts Legislature with the intention of addressing an acute problem of the day: the incarceration of people with mental illness. Her declaration to the ...
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