Aspen Ideas Festival

The Tragic Toll of Mental Illness Behind Bars

Mental health disorders are rampant in America’s correctional facilities — in many cases making our prisons and jails the main providers of mental health treatment in their municipalities. Why this concentration, and what does it mean for those inmates? How are correctional facilities coping — and is it working? What can be done to alleviate the situation?

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