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Report finds children with mental health diagnoses often incarcerated instead of getting treatment (www.npr.org)
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A new report from Congress has raised the alarm about children with mental health conditions being held in juvenile detention, rather than getting treatment.

"Prolonged Incarceration of Children Due to Mental Health Care Shortages," released Thursday by the staff of Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff and Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans, is based on a survey sent to administrators of public juvenile detention facilities around the country. About half of those who responded to the survey reported they had, at some point, kept children incarcerated when they could have been released into offsite mental health care.

"This should shock America's conscience," Ossoff says. "Children with special needs, locked up for extended time instead of getting the mental health care that they need."

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[–] sparkles@piefed.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

Yes well…yes. Very easy for these kids to fall through the cracks. I imagine more so when a profit motive is involved.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

Same goes for adults.

[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Is this surprising to anyone?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago

The system is working exactly as designed.

Doing anything about it yet?