Crisis center needed in Madison to keep mentally ill from unjust incarceration

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 25 percent of adults reported having a mental illness. This statistic may feel staggering considering mental illness often remains invisible or untreated — but its prevalence among the American populace is nothing new. Dorothea Dix felt a similar shock as she observed the inhumane … Continue reading Crisis center needed in Madison to keep mentally ill from unjust incarceration