The National Alliance on Mental Health gives Mississippi’s mental-health care an F. The state has taken preliminary steps toward providing more care to people in the community; however, it cut 10 percent from its general fund mental-health budget from 2009 to 2012, and its psychiatric hospitals are filled to capacity. “Services are not available until people reach a point of severe crisis,” NAMI stated. “Then, individuals either become the responsibility of the state hospital system or state correctional system.”