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The state should house people living with mental illness

By Jack Bragen on August 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
When we see our fellow human beings wither away and die on the streets, when we see encampments in the news that appear not much better than living under a pile of trash, when we see human beings who have names...the cure is not worse than the disease. Something must be done.



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