It took 150 years but it appears we have come full circle in the way we treat the mentally ill.
After banging on his cell door for six hours straight with his fist and head, the officers restrained an inmate who was threatening to kill himself. (Ackerman + Gruber | Minneapolis Editorial and Advertising Photographers | 612.293.7175 | mail@ackermangruber.com)
TRAPPED: Mental Illness In America’s Prisons – Feature Video by Jenn Ackerman
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TRAPPED: The Story Of The Mentally Ill In Prison by David Rosenberg 4.1.2013
Prison Or Treatment For The Mentally Ill by Allen Frances, M.D. 3.10.2013
Patients As Prisoners, Jails New Mental Health Institutions CBS News 3.5.2013
Indiana Scrambles To Address Ruling On Mentally Ill Inmates by Tim Evans 1.2.2013
Closing New York State Psychiatric Hospitals Is Dangerous by DJ Jaffe 3.19.2012
Nation’s Jails Struggle With Mentally Ill Prisoner’s NPR 9.4.2011
Deinstitutionalization: A Psychiatric “Titanic” Frontline 1997
Lost Lesson Of Mental Health – New York Times 4.17.1990
State Psychiatric Hospitals Forced To Change Or Close by Dava Sobel 2.10.1981
The Inmates of Willard 1870 to 1900 / A Genealogy Resource 
Thank you for this terrific post!
Lucy Winer Director/Producer Wildlight Productions, Inc. lwiner@wildlightproductions.com tel 212 614 9775 fax 212 614 0902
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Thank you, Lucy! If not for your wonderful documentary, I never would have been aware of this terrible situation.
https://inmatesofwillard.com/2012/07/23/kings-park-stories-from-an-american-mental-institution-a-groundbreaking-new-documentary-lucy-winer/
https://inmatesofwillard.com/2012/08/28/kings-park-stories-from-an-american-mental-institution-a-review/
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PBS:Frontline did a good show several years ago, and it was titled ‘The New Asylums’, which talks about how prisons & jails have become the replacements for state hospitals. I hate it when someone says or I read, that the reason so many mental health facilities closed was due to the advances made in medication and other treatments. Most people assume that “everything is OK and people are getting the help they need”, end of story.
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