If It Were Physical Pain, It Would Be Called Torture: A Story of Two Young Men

Summary: A collection of two separate articles portraying how the seriously mentally ill have been systematically stripped of their human rights. The dismantling and closure of the federal and state mental hospitals has caused an extreme shortage of programs and facilities for those who suffer from mental illness. Now where many who are severely mentally ill are found in county jails and state prisons.

Author: Douglas A. Kramer, MD, MS, Psychiatry Times, March 2015