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“We celebrated the closings of these large hospitals — we were proud of it, and it was the right thing to do. But what we’ve done is basically replaced it with a system that’s worse. Now it’s incarceration, and there are not mental health professionals treating people and caring for them. It’s correctional officers, being asked to do something they’re not properly trained to do.”
-Mental Health Association Oklahoma CEO Mike Brose, speaking about Oklahoma’s failure to fund community mental health care (Source).
