Abstract

Observing that the number of psychiatric hospital beds for people with severe mental illness (SMI) has reached an historic and critical low, the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC) earlier this month released a new research report, which found the critical shortage of beds to have real consequences for people with SMI. Some will wait months in jail despite not yet being found guilty of crime while others will be denied hospital admission despite being critically ill.

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