Mental health spending nets return by reducing jail population
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 14:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Each dollar a state spends on mental health care cuts roughly 25 cents off its jail expenditures by reducing its inmate population, a new study shows. The findings, published in the journal Social Science & Medicine, suggest that 35 of the 44 states analyzed could reduce jail populations by spending more on public inpatient mental […]