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| A comprehensive solution to mental illness is needed |
| By startribune.com - Linda Jesson |
| Published: 12/03/2012 |
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For decades, troubling stories about people with mental illnesses remaining unnecessarily in hospitals -- or worse, in jails -- have drawn attention to the need for more appropriate care. Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek's commentary ("A jail is no place for the mentally ill," Nov. 25) paints such a concerning picture. It is clear that we need to do a better job when anyone who needs treatment in a mental-health facility is languishing in a jail cell. The answer is not, however, simply building more psychiatric hospital beds. We need to help move people effectively through the entire system of care -- a system currently fraught with potential obstacles. Some people don't get basic mental-health care in jail, or have trouble getting from a correctional setting to an appropriate mental-health facility. Others get into our state-operated psychiatric system and are successfully treated, but the courts don't recognize their progress and keep them confined. Still others can't be discharged because there are not enough suitable community options. And some return to the community, only to meet resistance in our neighborhoods and workplaces. Read More. |
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