It cannot be news:  “At their maximum census in 1955, the state mental hospitals held 558,922 patients. Today, they hold approximately 35,000 patients, and states are continuing to close beds to reduce that number. In 2012, there were estimated to be 356,268 inmates with severe mental illness in prisons and jails. There were also approximately 35,000 patients with severe mental in state psychiatric hospitals. This means that there are ten times the number of persons with serious mental illness in prisons and jails than in state psychiatric hospitals.”

Yet it continues.  Does anyone out there notice?  Care?  Can anyone out there speak up and get heard?

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2014-04-25/article/42054?headline=ECLECTIC-RANT-For-Better-Treatment-of-the-Mentally-Ill-in-Prisons-and-Jails—By-Ralph-E.-Stone