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Jail More Likely Than Hospital for Severely Mentally Ill

1. Mark Moran

The researchers report a correlation between state spending on mental health and the likelihood that individuals with severe mental illness will be incarcerated rather than hospitalalized.

Americans with severe mental illness are now three times as likely to be in jail as they are to be in a hospital, according to a report published in May by the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC).