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All three parts of our latest investigation, In Crisis, are now available to read. Reporter Alex Stuckey spent more than a year looking into Texas' secretive mental health care system: chrn.cl/3brIK2N

Part 1: Texas' 10 mental hospitals are stretched beyond capacity, with shocking lack of oversight and waitlists for hospital beds that stretch on for as long as a year.
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Part 2: The state's mental health system has failed for decades to break away from the criminalization of the mentally ill - as hospital beds decrease, more people find themselves on the street and in trouble. houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…

Part 3: As the waitlist for beds continued to grow, Texas started funneling money to private psychiatric hospitals. But until recently, the state didn't know which hospitals received taxpayer funds. houstonchronicle.com/news/investiga…

Finally, this interactive timeline offers a fascinating look at the history of Texas' mental health system houstonchronicle.com/projects/2021/…