New Jersey Mental Health System Found to Provide Inadequate Rehabilitation

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The New Jersey mental health system was found to provide inadequate rehabilitation for mental illness; detain individuals with serious mental illness in jails and juvenile detention centers for extended periods of time; and misappropriate funds for institutional care. The mental health system was found to be uncoordinated and operate inefficiently. The state's Mental Health Task Force recommended the following reforms:

• Expand screening centers by appropriating ten million dollars and adding 150 master's . . .
  
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