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When mental illness leads to dropped charges, patients often go without stabilizing care

For seven years, Timothy Jay Fowler rotated between jail, forced psychiatric hospitalization and freedom.

Tribune News Service · Aug 8, 2022

Justice system is failing mentally ill

Once free and lacking treatment, such patients sometimes end up being charged with additional crimes

Salon · Aug 3, 2022

Long waits for Montana state hospital leave psychiatric patients in jail

A woman experiencing delusions sat in Montana’s Cascade County jail for 125 days while waiting for a bed at the state psychiatric hospital. A man with schizophrenia spent 100 days last year in the Flathead County jail on the hospital’s waitlist, at times refusing food and water. A man complaining…

Tribune News Service · Mar 24, 2022