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Where Have America's Mentally Ill Gone?
Photo of the Mead building lobby, Yankton State Hospital, S.D. Photographer Christopher Payne visited state mental institutions across the country, many of which were abandoned. His book, Asylum: Inside The Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, captures what he found.
Photo of the Mead building lobby, Yankton State Hospital, S.D. Photographer Christopher Payne visited state mental institutions across the country, many of which were abandoned. His book, Asylum: Inside The Closed World of State Mental Hospitals, captures what he found.
More Americans receive mental health treatment in prisons and jails than in hospitals or treatment centers. But the criminal justice system wasn't built to care for them.
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