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Mental Health Care Gaps Stretch Jail Resources
Original: Mental Health Care Challenges Stretch Jail Resources
Jails are struggling to cope as inmates with mental health needs grow in number and complexity, stretching staff, budgets and medical resources. The issue reflects a wider pattern in which correctional facilities have become de facto mental health providers due to gaps in community care, prompting renewed debate over funding and treatment alternatives.
Why now: Concerns are mounting that underfunded community mental health services are pushing more people with psychiatric needs into the criminal justice system.
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- Mental Health Care Challenges Stretch Jail Resources · The Fallon Post
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