U.S. physicians call for new approach to address national 'epidemic of mass incarceration'

U.S. physicians call for new approach to address national 'epidemic of mass incarceration' The largest facilities housing psychiatric patients in the U.S. are not hospitals but jails, the authors write. Major depression and psychotic disorders are four to eight times as prevalent among inmates as in the general population. However, only 22 percent of state prisoners and 7 percent of jail inmates receive mental health care while incarcerated.