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Our hero:   Florida judge Lerner-wren on the criminalization of people with mental illness as a matter of human rights

America stands at a crossroads. As the Human Rights Watch report informs us, jails and prisons are unsuitable substitutes for psychiatric hospitals or residential programs. They can be dangerous and potentially deadly. In America, hundreds of thousands of people with serious mental illness are being housed in our nation's jails and prisons. Many due to untreated mental illness, stigma and severely underfunded and fragmented state-wide systems of behavioral health care.
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It is beyond time to reject criminalization as an acceptable substitute for the funding and development of qualitative and recovery focused community based systems of care. It is time to recognize that America's human stain -- is one of basic human rights.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ginger-lernerwren/the-criminalization-of-pe_2_b_7436426.html
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Florida Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren
Human Rights Watch Report -- May 12, 2015: 
Callous and Cruel:  Use of Force against Inmates with Mental Disabilities in US Jails and Prisons