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Prisons and the Mentally Ill
Clip: 6/20/2013 | 7m 59s
How did our country’s jails become last-resort caretakers for the mentally ill?
It doesn’t make moral, ethical, or fiscal sense, according to Cook County sheriff Tom Dart, to house people who are mentally ill in jails and prisons.
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Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
Prisons and the Mentally Ill
Clip: 6/20/2013 | 7m 59s
It doesn’t make moral, ethical, or fiscal sense, according to Cook County sheriff Tom Dart, to house people who are mentally ill in jails and prisons.
Problems playing video? | Closed Captioning Feedback
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