The tragic collapse of America's public mental health system, in one map [Vox.com]
The map essentially tells two stories: the rise of mass incarceration and the collapse of America's public mental health system. From the 1970s through the 2000s, America began locking up a lot more people as part of the country's broader shift to tough-on-crime laws to deal with skyrocketing crime. At the same time, the country pulled back and defunded its public mental health system. This wasn't, at the time, totally malicious — the system during the '60s and '70s was plagued with abuse...