As States Cut Mental Health Care Funding, Prisons Are Becoming Asylums

As States Cut Mental Health Care Funding, Prisons Are Becoming Asylums: pThe Great Recession, in conjunction with states’ propensities to cut Medicaid benefits in the face of the rising cost of health care services, led to some of the biggest cuts to state mental health care services in U.S. history between 2009 and 2011. Of course, the population of Americans with mental health problems didn’t just [...]/p