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LA County Jail - The Nation's Largest Mental Institution

By Kristin Houle

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NPR's recent series on the U.S. prison population featured a story entitled "Inside The Nation's Largest Mental Institution," which focuses on the 1,400 mentally ill inmates in the Los Angeles County Jail.Read a summary of the story or listen to the segment in its entirety here.

Full post as published by Prevention Not Punishment on August 18, 2008 (boomark / email).

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