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Review
. 2001 Summer:(90):29-49.
doi: 10.1002/yd.23320019005.

Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review

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Persons with severe mental illness in jails and prisons: a review

H R Lamb et al. New Dir Ment Health Serv. 2001 Summer.

Abstract

One of the greatest problems of deinstitutionalization has been the very large number of persons with severe mental illness who have entered the criminal justice system instead of the mental health system.

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