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: Grits for Breakfast

Number of mentally ill in jail a community 'barometer'

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The executive director of the Harris County MHMR Authority, Steven Schnee, has an effective op ed in the Houston Chronicle today declaring that the scope of mentally ill people in the Harris County jail foretells a coming crisis:The Harris County Jail is now the largest mental health facility in Texas. Approximately 2,400 inmates a day are now diagnosed with a psychiatric illness that medically justifies the provision of psychiatric medications. There are almost as many psychiatrically ill inmates in the jail on psychiatric medications as there are patients in all of the Department of State Health Services hospital beds across the entire state.Let that reality sink in.How is this occurring? Several critical factors contribute to this disturbing trend...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 28, 2009 (boomark / email).

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