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“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 HANK GANS 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 fro...