Vicious Circles of Care
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So often the mentally abnormal offender shuffles from Prison to mental hospitals, which he may have only ( JUst left a few weeks before, to pass into the hands of | *his mythical community care. As the number of hospital beds decreases, psychil atric patients, who have spent a greater part of their j 1'ves in the supportive, protective care of the mental hospital, leave to return into the world of keen competition in which only the strong can live. They find their tranquillisers no longer provide them with protection, there is no longer a ward to retreat to, a kindly sister to rectify all ills, they are out alone with
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