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We're All Prisoners of Our Incarceration Policies!
Posted by FoM on April 07, 1999 at 19:54:07 PT
Source: Seattle Times
Everybody knows we've been sweeping something under the rug. The lump is too big not to notice, but until recently few people have had any inclination to clean house. Terry Kupers thinks that is changing. Kupers, a psychiatrist, says that for too long, mentally ill people have been disappearing into prisons while the rest of us looked the other way. 
"We live in a very cruel time," he told me recently. "There is not a lot of sympathy for the poor or for immigrants. There is harshness toward the underdog." So it is not surprising, he said, that most people have not cared about the fate of people who suffer from mental illnesses. But he thinks the pendulum has swung as far in the direction of cruelty as it can go. Very good look at Prison Madness and the need to change our thinking if we expect to cure any of our social ills!Click the link for the full story!
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