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“The Incarceration Revolution”: The Abandonment of the Seriously Mentally Ill to Our Jails and Prisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Joseph D. Bloom
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In 1848 Dorothea Dix, the famous 19th century advocate for the indigent mentally ill, appealed to the United States Congress to support the setaside of a very large tract of land that was to be used for the “Relief and Support of the Indigent Curable and Incurable Insane.” She stated:

It will be said by a few, perhaps that each State should establish and sustain its own institutions; that it is not obligatory upon the general government to legislate for maintenance of State charities…. But may it not be demonstrated as the soundest policy of the federal government to assist in the accomplishment of great moral obligations, by diminishing and arresting wide-spread miseries which mar the face of society; and weaken the strength of communities?

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , Winter 2010 , pp. 727 - 734
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2010

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