An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chi

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This 1856 work, advocating the abolition of mechanical restraints in treating mentally ill patients, is a key text of asylum reform.

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