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| Jails struggle to deal with flood of mentally ill |
| By greatfallstribune.com- Adam Geller & Eric Dietrich |
| Published: 07/22/2014 |
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The numbers, posted daily on the Cook County, Ill., sheriff's website, would be alarming at an urgent care clinic, let alone a jail: On a Wednesday, 36 percent of all new arrivals report having a mental illness. On a Friday, it's 54 percent. But inside the razor wire framing the 96-acre compound, the faces and voices of the newly arrested confirm its accidental role as Chicago's treatment center of last resort for people with serious mental illnesses. It's a job thrust on many of the nation's 3,300 local jails, and like them, it is awash in a tide of bookings and releases that make it particularly unsuited for the task. And the trend, says the sheriff's office administrator who oversees the Cascade County Detention Center in Great Falls, doesn't spare Montana. Read More. |
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