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This tour through mental health care in one of the US's largest prison through the eyes of a journalist who is eligible for parole in 2029.

'This Place Is Crazy'

Our mental-health-care system is broken. Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated. Here’s what this crisis looks like from the inside—a series of lost lives and a few rare victories—as reported by a prisoner-journalist.

By John J. Lennon
Jun 5, 2018

'This Place Is Crazy': How America's Cellblocks Became Its Psych Wards Our mental-health-care system is broken. Ten of every eleven psychiatric patients housed by the government are incarcerated. Here’s what this crisis looks like from the inside—a series of lost lives and a few rare victories—as reported by a prisoner-journalist.

Writer Andrea Cantora is an assistant professor in the University of Baltimore’s School of Criminal Justice and director of UB’s Second Chance Pell program.

Prison education a proven investment Maryland would be smart to provide greater support to existing program that educate prison inmates.

"Libraries Lead" is 2018's theme for National Library Week April 8 - 14. It's the 60th anniversary of the event that began in the US in 1958.

In the corrections environment, libraries lead to many good outcomes.