Snapshot: The Prisoner

Snapshot: The Prisoner

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A veteran with PTSD sits in a holding cell in Illinois’s Cook County Jail after being arrested on a narcotics charge. With over 10,600 inmates, the jail is one of the country’s largest incarceration facilities. These local jails are increasingly being used as treatment centers for nonviolent offenders with serious mental illnesses.

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