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 