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Prisons and jails are some of America’s largest psychiatric facilities
Journalist Alissa Roth has spent years investigating just how we got to the point where America’s prisons and jails are filled with mentally ill inmates.
By Jonathan Bastian • • 1 min readJournalist Alissa Roth has spent years investigating just how we got to the point where America’s prisons and jails are filled with mentally ill inmates.
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Treating mental illness in our prisons and jails- 0:00Stabbing in Ventura has residents calling for swift action on homelessness
- 7:49Strapped to a chair for two days, schizophrenic inmate in SLO dies
- 16:05Prisons and jails are some of America’s largest psychiatric facilitiesYou’re reading this
The full episode
3 of 3Treating mental illness in our prisons and jails- 0:00Stabbing in Ventura has residents calling for swift action on homelessness
- 7:49Strapped to a chair for two days, schizophrenic inmate in SLO dies
- 16:05Prisons and jails are some of America’s largest psychiatric facilitiesYou’re reading this