“Bedlam”: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Under-funding Made Jails “De Facto Mental Asylums”

The documentary film "Bedlam" about how people have mental illness end up in prison.

“Bedlam”: Film Shows How Decades of Healthcare Underfunding Made Jails “De Facto Mental Asylums”
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/12/27/bedlam_documentary_mental_health_criminal_justice

https://drkenrosenberg.com/bedlam

https://www.inquirer.com/health/kenneth-paul-rosenberg-bedlam-mental-health-crisis-20191023.html

5 questions: Kenneth Paul Rosenberg on why mental illness is ‘the greatest social crisis of our time’

by Sandy Bauers, For the Inquirer, Updated: October 23, 2019

In 1946, Life magazine published an exposé on mental hospitals, focusing on the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. The title: “Bedlam 1946.”

That dreadful facility, like so many others, eventually closed. A good thing? Not completely, according to Kenneth Paul Rosenberg, who maintains that people simply went from one horrific situation to another, from the grossly inadequate institutions to the dangerous streets. In neither case is psychiatric care even close to sufficient.

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