Mental Illness and Criminal Justice in Florida:The Case for Medicaid Expansion

6/30/2020

Decades of disinvestment in the state’s mental health care system has led to the institutionalization of the severely mentally ill in Florida prisons and jails, depriving individuals of essential care, and straining state and local budgets.

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