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Nearly half a million people in America’s prisons and jails were dealing with mental illness in 2005. FRONTLINE examined mental health in the prison system. (Aired 2005) This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate When “The New Asylums” was originally released, 16 ...
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