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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – There\’s a grim joke among correctional officers across Pennsylvania: Prisons are no longer lock-ups for America\’s worst offenders; they\’re asylums for the mentally ill. Based on an analysis of data from county and state prisons, PennLive estimates that nearly a third of Pennsylvania\’s 87,756 inmates had a mental illness on an average…
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