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Florida Executes Mentally Ill Man | Equal Justice Initiative
From www.eji.org - August 5, 2013

The Effects of Incarceration on Mental Health
GoodTherapy.org
March 15th, 2013
Contributed by Zawn Villines

Florida prison officials hire ombudsman to oversee treatment of mentally ill inmates
From linkis.com - October 3, 2014
Florida prison officials are hiring an ombudsman to oversee the treatment of mentally ill inmates in the wake of abuse allegations and cover-ups.

Locking Down the Mentally Ill
The Crime Report: Inside Criminal Justice
February 18, 2010
Solitary Confinement Cells Have Become America’s New Asylums

Waiting List for Addiction Treatment in Federal Prisons Is 51,000 Inmates Long
Seth Ferranti / The Fix  

Executing People With Serious Mental Illness Offends Our Constitution and Our Humanity
From www.huffingtonpost.com 
John Ferguson suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. In the terminology of the Supreme Court, he is "insane. Executing him, as the State plans on Monday, August 5, would violate the U.S. Constitution.

Locked in
From www.economist.com
SINCE 1994 Tracey Aldridge has been arrested 100 times, jailed 27 times for more than 1,000 days and spent a total of eight years in prison. Most of her arrests have...