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Why so many people with mental illness end up behind bars
The Los Angeles County Jail is the largest psychiatric ward in America. About a quarter of the men imprisoned in LA and nearly half of the women need some form of mental health care.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readThe Los Angeles County Jail is the largest psychiatric ward in America. About a quarter of the men imprisoned in LA and nearly half of the women need some form of mental health care. Across the country, jails and prisons are increasingly being forced to provide psychiatric care for their inmate patients. These institutions are not set up to do that.
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- 15:11EPA chief asked staffers to find his wife a job and get him out of a housing penalty
- 23:49Why so many people with mental illness end up behind barsYou’re reading this
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