Locking up people with mental health issues won’t help; here’s what will.

Millions in the U.S. face incarceration due to mental health or substance use disorders. As the growing movement for racial justice asks what defunding policing could look like, we must also talk about who is currently being incarcerated, for what reasons and what kind of interventions actually work.

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