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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by rayiner on Saturday January 11, 2025 @11:00AM (#42666723)
Wow. Finland’s medical detention rate of 214 per 100,000 is on the same order of magnitude as the U.S. incarceration rate of 541 per 100,000. I wonder how many imprisonments in the US could be addressed by mental illness detention.
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Re:Finland's Zero Homeless Strategy: Lessons from a Success ... by tyingq on Saturday January 11, 2025 @06:25PM (#42669788)
There's a chart in this whitepaper where you see how they may have shifted from mental hospitals to jail/prison when US policy around that changed in the 1970's.

https://freopp.org/whitepapers/reimagining-the-policy-approa...

Scroll down to "The Homeless Have Moved from Hospitals to Prisons"

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