Abstract
The fact that jails and prisons in the US house more of the mentally ill than do psychiatric hospitals illustrates the country's failure to formulate a comprehensive policy toward the mentally ill and its inability as a nation to achieve consensus on social policy in general. The attempts of various state and county mental health care systems to alleviate the problem are described.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 8-13 |
| Journal | America |
| Volume | 166 |
| State | Published - 1992 |