Jails called biggest psychiatric treatment center
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.
“The largest psychiatric hospital in our state is our jails,” said Michael Brose, executive director of the Mental Health Association in Tulsa.
For three years, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse h...
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