UKs mentally ill people more likely to be found in jail than hospital

UKs mentally ill people more likely to be found in jail than hospital Matthew Williams cannibalism holds up mirror to state of health and prison services slated as disintegrating by reform trust

Each decade in Britain appears to contain a symbolic, heinous murder a crime so awful that it reflects a nations pathologies as well as its fears. In the 1990s, the death of James Bulger, a two-year-old who was abducted from a Merseyside shopping centre before being tortured and killed, led to the age of criminal responsibility being changed.

The next decade began with the case of 10-year-old Damilola Taylor, who bled to death after being assaulted on a south London stairwell, presaging years of concern over the rise of such attacks. Continue reading... The Guardian