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WWW.samefacts.com - 2/23/2009
Out of the asylum, into the prison?
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Kevin Drum and Matt Yglesias point to this graph as suggesting that the astounding prison-building spree the country has been on since about 1980 reflected the process of de-institutionalization for mental-health patients: in effect, a substitute of the prison for the asylum. That idea is ...

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Matthew Yglesias:  Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited

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Prisons and Mental Institutions Revisited
Matthew Yglesias — I pointed to the provocative chart below a few days ago and was intrigued by the thesis that the prison boom has basically been the flipside of the 60s-era decline in institutionalization of the mentally ill: Mark Kleiman does it buy it and argues, convincingly in my view, that “the demographics aren’t right.” As Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll point out in Do Prisons Make Us Safer? (just published), mental-hospital patients tended to be white, female, and elderly, while prisoners are disproportionately black, male, and young. Certainly, the ...

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