[KosmicKitty]

We don't treat the mentally ill in hospitals anymore, we treat them in prisons

http://community.nicic.gov/blogs/mentalhealth/archive/2011/01/28/more-mentally-ill-persons-are-in-jails-and-prisons-than-hospitals-a-survey-of-the-states.aspx

[samtheman]

Interesting chart.

[1010RD]

Yep. Counties and cities abdicated their responsibility to those who need to be institutionalized. They opened the doors, closed the facilities and have been suffering ever since. They find money for cronies and high speed rail systems, but not for the street people. It is a full on travesty.