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What I Learned About Navigating the Mental Health System

Beautiful Voyager

This would be the first of many unsuccessful psychiatric hospital stays. I begin looking further into more advanced rehabs, but research has shown me that I couldn’t find one mental rehabilitation center that accepted Medicaid or Medicare in the US. The entanglement of delusions and psychosis had long ago become too much to bear.

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Criminal Justice Reform is Not Dead

Beyond Advocacy

million individuals are held in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,323 juvenile correctional facilities, 142 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S.