Oregon's Jails Are its Biggest Providers of Mental Health Services

Matt Davis
The Portland Mercury | January 14, 2010
The jail spends half of its annual $600,000 drug budget on psychiatric medications for the inmates who will consent to taking them. But jails can't force the inmates. Far from solving our state's mental health problems, the current situation is probably making them worse.
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