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Our colleague Susannah Frame with KING 5 News in Seattle has been covering Decades of research show that people with serious Nearly half a million people in America's prisons and jails were dealing with "It's been pretty incredible to just see the response I've gotten from participants,"

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Here's how Washington got mentally ill defendants out of jail and into treatment

Here's how Washington got mentally ill defendants out of jail and into treatment

Our colleague Susannah Frame with KING 5 News in Seattle has been covering

Record number of defendants with mental illness 'decompensating' in Washington jails

Record number of defendants with mental illness 'decompensating' in Washington jails

Decades of research show that people with serious

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The New Asylums (full documentary) | Are Prisons the New Mental Hospitals? | FRONTLINE

The New Asylums (full documentary) | Are Prisons the New Mental Hospitals? | FRONTLINE

Nearly half a million people in America's prisons and jails were dealing with

Mentally Ill: Waiting in Jail | A KING 5 Investigators Special

Mentally Ill: Waiting in Jail | A KING 5 Investigators Special

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Washington County Mental Health Court holds first proceedings

Washington County Mental Health Court holds first proceedings

"It's been pretty incredible to just see the response I've gotten from participants,"