A worried mom wanted the police to take her mentally ill son to the hospital. They shot him.

Insane

Is It Illegal To Be Mentally Ill?

Letters and Politics

New York Times Book Review Podcast

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Criminalizing Mental Illness

‘Insane’: America’s 3 Largest Psychiatric Facilities Are Jails

How mental illness has become a ticket to jail.

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Prisons Are the New Asylums

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A ‘hellish world’: the mental health crisis overwhelming America’s prisons.

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