$5 billion have been cut from mental health services budget over - TopicsExpress



          

$5 billion have been cut from mental health services budget over the last 3 years. Yet offenders like Aaron Alexis, with known psychiatric problems, are left untreated to either commit massacres and become victims of their own destruction, or sent to jail at a cost of $80,000 - $165,000 for 1 year.....1 year per inmate! Ex: Rikers Island Prison houses approximately 12,000 prisoners of which over 30% are diagnosed with mental illness. The annual cost of EACH inmate? $167,000+. You do the math for 3 years for 3,600 inmates. This is senseless waste of money and lives! cnn/2013/09/18/opinion/landsberg-shootings-mental-health/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 21:09:01 +0000

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