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by Animats 2456 days ago
That happened in the US a long time ago, starting in the 1960s.[1] "By 2000, the number of state psychiatric hospital beds per 100,000 people was 22, down from 339 in 1955." During this period, prison populations went way up.

[1] https://www.uniteforsight.org/mental-health/module2