The new asylums / written, produced & directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O'Connor ; a Frontline coproduction with Mead Street Films.

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Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of t...

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Corporate Authors:	Mead Street Films (Firm) WGBH Educational Foundation
Language:	English
Language and/or Writing System:	Closed-captioned.
Published:	[Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation : Distributed by PBS Video, [2005], ©2005.
Edition:	Edited version.
Subjects:	Mentally ill prisoners > Care > Ohio. Mentally ill > Care > Ohio. Criminal justice, Administration of > Ohio. Documentary television programs > United States.
Physical Description:	1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:	Video DVD

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