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Old Jun 16, 2014, 10:22 AM
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I found some stats

http://www.newsweek.com/nearly-1-5-a...ch-year-230608
The estimates are from 18 to 26 percent. The 26 percent was in 2004 so I didnt include it.

Matthew Mangino: Prisons are the*new mental asylums - Opinion - Holland Sentinel - Holland, MI

The MI are not in prison because they are violent, they are there because people dont want them around so they get stuck in prison for things like stealing food, trespassing, vagrancy and even for being victims of crime.

Criminalization of mentally ill and mental illness
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Thanks for this!
Hellion