Major health issues among California’s inmates

Our prison population, is comprised of a disproportionate number of minorities and low-income Americans — 37 percent of whom have chronic diseases , 65 to 80 percent of whom have struggled with substance abuse, and 13 percent of whom suffer from severe mental illness. With state cuts to mental health funding and California’s bursting prison population, prisons have also turned into de facto asylums , perpetuating cycles of mental illness and poverty in minority populations. This is a crisis.

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