I suspect few Americans realize just how much of an outlier the US is when it comes to incarceration rates. More than half a percent of Americans are currently in jail. Why? The "war on drugs."
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We keep our mental patients in prisons. Europe has about 5x the psych beds per capita than the US
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This is expanding my mind rn
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Psych patients go in and out of hospital emergency departments for a while with the main focus being on minimizing the length of stay. Eventually during a schizo episode or whatever, they stab a guy or something. Now they live in prison.
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Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time.
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Makes sense. I'm sure we have numbers on % of prisoners with mental illness, right?
Jamie pull those up
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