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| Mental Health Creates Grey Area For Treating Inmates |
| By kansascity.com |
| Published: 11/01/2010 |
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They’re convicted rapists and child molesters, violent sexual criminals. Nobody wants them in their neighborhood, so after they have served their prison time, they are committed to state mental hospitals for treatment. The problem is therapy seldom rehabilitates those offenders. Year after year, they remain locked up in mental health facilities across the country, racking up hundreds of millions of dollars in expenses. In Missouri, the Department of Mental Health is opening more space to house its steadily growing population of these lifetime patients. But even as its sexual predator program expands, the department is downsizing hospital care for the severely mentally ill so that it can stay within its shrinking budget. That will mean fewer resources for patients in Kansas City. Read More. |
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