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. 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.
Why so many people with mental illness end up behind bars
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Guest:
- Alisa Roth - Author of “Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness” - @alisa_roth