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Part 3 of 3 in a seriesMore than half of the inmates in United States jails have a mental health problem, a 2006 Justice Department study said, and women incarcerated have a much higher rate than men."Arizona and Nevada have almost 10 times more mentally ill persons in jails and prisons than in hospitals," a May 2010 joint study by the Treatment Advocacy Center and the National Sheriffs' Association found. "It is thus fact, not hyperbole, that America's jails and prisons have become our new mental hospitals."

May 3, 2014