Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.
“Nearly 1 in 3 people imprisoned in Massachusetts had an open mental health case in 2017. 74 percent of imprisoned women had a mental health case in 2017. 15 percent of imprisoned women had a serious mental health disorder in 2017.“
Bay State Banner
September 7, 2018
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