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NV: Mental Illness Keeps Many Clycling Through Jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Illness keeps many on cycle through jail Committing crimes gets them treatment which ends with their release By Timothy Pratt Sunday, July 12, 2009 | 2 a.m. CASE STUDIES: HIGH COSTS, POOR OUTCOMES If Nevada was willing to invest in providing more psychiatric care outside of jail, not only would it do more to help the mentally ill, it would also cost taxpayers less than arresting and incarcerating the mentally ill, experts say. Consider the jail and medication costs for the following three mentally ill inmates ? and this does not take into account the additional court costs and other bills. Dr. Keith Courtney, chief psychiatrist at Clark County Detention Center, withheld the inmates? names to comply with patient privacy laws. Inmate No...continue to full post

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