Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Awards $2.34 Million in Grants to Help Prisoners with Mental Illness Return to Community

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The numbers are sobering: more than two million arrests in the United States each year involve people with serious mental illnesses (SMI). By the best and most recent estimate, nearly one in three women and one in seven men in our nation’s jails suffer from depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or other mental illnesses.

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