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For people with mental illness, jail should never be normalized

By Jack Bragen on April 6, 2021
First-person   Opinion
People who violate our overly complex and needlessly punitive web of laws, when they do so due to being disconnected from reality due to a psychiatric illness, are suffering from an illness and they are not criminals.



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