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Mental health care for prisoners could prevent rearrest, but prisons aren't designed for rehabilitation

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imageInmates walk outside their cells at San Quentin State Prison in June 2012.Lucy Nicholson/Reuters

Mental health conditions are more common among prisoners than in the general population. Estimates suggest that as many as 26 percent of state and federal prisoners suffer from at least one mental illness, compared with nine percent or less in the...

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