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Jail reform must address mental health, substance dependence

Guest Opinion//July 13, 2017//[read_meter]

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Jail reform must address mental health, substance dependence

Jail reform must address mental health, substance dependence

Guest Opinion//July 13, 2017//[read_meter]

A hallucinating inmate caught spitting and urinating on the floor of his cell. A woman wildly smearing fecal matter on her cell walls. These were just two of 47 unstable...

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