How Mass Deinstitutionalization Harmed the Mentally Ill

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>As a result of these social, medical, and legal changes, the number of available public psychiatric beds in the U.S. dropped by 95 percent between 1955 and 2016. . . . Most policy experts indicate that states need a minimum of 40 to 60 beds per 100,000 people to meet the needs of a population. But in 2016 the average state provided only 11.7 beds per 100,000 people. . . . More importantly, these steps have the capacity to change the lives of those mentally ill Americans who have been left in the crosshairs of deinstitutionalization and whose illnesses can’t be treated with gun control.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/02/12/how-mass-deinstitutionalization-harmed-the-mentally-ill/

Hopefully, reversal, or at least redress of the issues highlighted in this article is part of the plan.