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           *****¤http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1003/usa1003.pdf    Ill Equipped:  U.S. Prisons and Offenders with Mental Illness

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*****http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=38174&lstid=275   Department of Justice Study: Mental Illness of Prison Inmates Worse Than Past Estimates  The release of a study by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) showing than 64 percent of local jail inmates, 56 percent of state prisoners and 45 percent of federal prisoners have symptoms of serious mental illnesses is an indictment of the nation's mental healthcare system.

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