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| More Than Half of Oklahoma Inmates Struggle With Mental Illness |
| By kosu.org- Jaclyn Cosgrove |
| Published: 03/28/2016 |
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Oklahoma’s prisons have become the new psychiatric hospitals. Fifty-seven percent of Oklahoma inmates struggle with mental illness. Oklahoman reporter Jaclyn Cosgrove takes us to meet one of them. Each morning, Justus Skyler Cobbs wakes up inside the Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ mental health unit, housed inside Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington, Oklahoma. Here, the 21-year-old receives regular mental health care. He says it is the best he has ever gotten. The reasons why he likes the care are simple. Justus is in prison for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, trespassing and malicious destruction of property, all nonviolent crimes, just like many of the other 16,500 Oklahoma inmates that struggle with mental illness. Read More. |
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