CIAO DATE: 12/03

Out of the Asylum, into the Cell

Sally Satel

On The Issues

November 2003

American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

Abstract

Prisons have become default mental-health treatment centers to the severe detriment of those experiencing genuine mental illness. Properly treating—rather than criminalizing—mental illness requires reforming our fragmented mental healthcare system and relaxing regulations to encourage patients to seek treatment.

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