{"title":"Bazelon Center: Invest in care, not jail, for people with MI","authors":"Valerie A. Canady","doi":"10.1002/mhw.34506","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>More than two million people with serious mental illness are booked into jails each year and 65% to 70% of youth involved with the juvenile justice system have disabilities, according to a new report released this month by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Additionally, two-thirds of Black men with disabilities will be arrested before age 28, the report stated.</p>","PeriodicalId":100916,"journal":{"name":"Mental Health Weekly","volume":"35 26","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mental Health Weekly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mhw.34506","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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More than two million people with serious mental illness are booked into jails each year and 65% to 70% of youth involved with the juvenile justice system have disabilities, according to a new report released this month by the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Additionally, two-thirds of Black men with disabilities will be arrested before age 28, the report stated.