there is a very high likelihood that person will subsequently be arrested at least once. According to a 1985 study of over 200 homeless people in Los Angeles, 76 percent of those who had previously been in a psychiatric hospital had also been arrested (Gelberg, Linn, & Leake, 1988).
Typically, the severely mentally ill who are homeless are repeatedly arrested. According to another study, of those severely mentally ill people jailed in the Los Angeles County jail, 74 percent had additional, previous…
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