The Reagan deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and the incredible increase of crime in the US [View all]

[Sarah Ibarruri]

Increased numbers of jail and prison inmates with severe mental illness have been inversely associated with public hospital bed numbers since the initiation of deinstitutionalization.

The proportion of mentally ill individuals within the homeless population is typically estimated at roughly one-third of all males and two-thirds of all females.

Staff in emergency departments in some states complain that psychiatric patients can be boarded in EDs for 24 to 48 hours. As remarkably long as that may sound, ED workers in other states scoff at this figure, reporting that they have psychiatric patients stuck in emergency departments as long as four weeks

....mental illness-related calls outnumbered calls for routine larceny, traffic accidents and domestic disputes.

http://tacreports.org/consequences

ALSO:

http://tacreports.org/tables <-- this allows you to see where your state ranks. Also, look at beds per 100,000