The mental health care system in Massachusetts is broken

One by one, nearly all the state psychiatric hospitals were boarded up or bulldozed, but Massachusetts leaders broke their promise to replace them with something better — or much of anything at all. The failed mental health care system has led to a public safety crisis, including scores of murders by disturbed people, police shootings, and embattled institutions from courts to hospitals confronting a tidal wave of mentally ill people. Read more: http://bit.ly/28SPDJ8 Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/globe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/BostonGlobe Follow us on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+bostonglobe

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