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| Jail: America's new mental institution |
| By http://www.thv11.com |
| Published: 05/07/2015 |
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - Some of the largest facilities housing mentally ill people in America are jails, and many of those low-level, non-violent offenders only wind up behind bars in the first place because society has nowhere else to put them. "We find a lot of cases in our court where mental illness is the underlying cause of the behavior," said Little Rock District Court Judge Alice Lightle. "Unfortunately, many of the individuals who end up in our jails are mentally ill… I think it's very difficult on the police, I think they have a lot of hard decisions they have to make with some of these individuals. I certainly don't like to see somebody get locked up when it's pretty clear that the issue is a mental health issue." Read More. |
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