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A Well Thought Out Scream By James Riordan: Cook County Jail Is Now the Largest Mental Health Facility in Illinois &The Nation
At Cook County Jail, an estimated one in three inmates has some form of mental illness. At least 400,000 inmates currently behind bars in the United States suffer from some type of mental illness—a population larger than the cities of Cleveland, New Orleans, or St. Louis—according to the National Alliance