Bureau of Prisons touts diversity of mental illness in controversial Facebook ad

Published April 11, 2022 6:07pm ET



The Bureau of Prisons has a pitch to prospective workers: the opportunity to work in an environment filled with a rich diversity of mental illnesses.

In a Facebook ad, the BOP stressed that it offers psychologists the opportunity to work with every disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, triggering backlash on social media for using incarcerated people’s mental health problems as a recruitment tool.

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