http://saynotostigma.com/2011/05/can-we-afford-to-tolerate-the-idea-that-jails-and-mental-illness-go-hand-in-hand/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-we-afford-to-tolerate-the-idea-that-jails-and-mental-illness-go-hand-in-hand a blog of The Menninger Clinic Thu, 23 May 2013 13:17:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://saynotostigma.com/2011/05/can-we-afford-to-tolerate-the-idea-that-jails-and-mental-illness-go-hand-in-hand/comment-page-1/#comment-1017 Lisa Blount Mon, 25 Jul 2011 08:53:04 +0000 http://saynotostigma.com/?p=1262#comment-1017 THANK YOU for this article!!! I'm a former Menninger patient and Peer Recovery Specialist in Florida. The incarceration rate here for persons diagnosed with mental illness in has increased by 165% in the last ten years. (Watch "The Forgotten Floor" on You Tube). You are several times more likely to end up in jail than in treatment if you live in Florida. This is reality for the uninsured. Jail creates PTSD and more crime. It's time transinstitutionalization ended. THANK YOU for this article!!! I’m a former Menninger patient and Peer Recovery Specialist in Florida. The incarceration rate here for persons diagnosed with mental illness in has increased by 165% in the last ten years. (Watch “The Forgotten Floor” on You Tube). You are several times more likely to end up in jail than in treatment if you live in Florida. This is reality for the uninsured. Jail creates PTSD and more crime. It’s time transinstitutionalization ended.

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