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Volume 356:197-198 January 11, 2007 Number 2
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Prisons and Mental Health

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To the Editor: We believe that physicians have an often unrecognized responsibility to advocate for the reform of systems that are harmful to their patients. The current policies and sentencing laws that result in mass incarceration represent an enormous social experiment in which there is vast racial and economic inequity. For more than two decades, there has been a dramatic and steady increase in the number of people incarcerated in the United States. Much of this increase results directly from inadequate treatment of mental illness and addiction in the community.1,2 The natural history of addiction and mental illness often results . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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