Jails called biggest psychiatric treatment center

Addiction, mental health problems cited as keys to imprisonment

 
BY GINNIE GRAHAM | Published: January 30, 2011   

Reducing Oklahoma’s prison population means getting serious and smart about how people with addictions and mental illness get treatment, state officials and mental health advocates say.

photo - A prisoner waits inside Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center on the first day of her incarceration at the facility. PHOTO BY ADAM WISNESKI, TULSA WORLD
A prisoner waits inside Dr. Eddie Warrior Correctional Center on the first day of her incarceration at the facility. PHOTO BY ADAM WISNESKI, TULSA WORLD

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“The largest psychiatric hospital in our state is our jails,” said Michael Brose, executive director of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa.

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