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Starvation Diet: Coping With Shrinking Budgets In Publicly Funded Mental Health Services

DAVID MAILEY, 52, has broad shoulders, a gap-toothed grin, a graying beard, and a sly wit. The pinky on his left hand is crooked, the result of a misunderstanding with a window thirty-one years ago, during his first hospitalization, in a state psychiatric facility in Tinley Park, a suburb southwest of Chicago. "Me and this other guy needed some air, so we tried to break the windows together. Those windows don’t break."

Mailey still lives in Woodlawn, the south-side Chicago neighborhood in which he grew up. It was and remains a poor, African American area. The family was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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