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…showed last 75 words of 683 total…health system so that people can be helped before they become part of the prison system. Services like medication therapy and monitoring, residential services, rehabilitation services, and support services are successful in bringing the severely mentally ill back to communities. People go to jail because the society wants to punish them, but the punishments of prison rape seem manifestly at odds with commonly accepted standards of justice (Hell Behind Bars 24). We must change that philosophy.