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'Insane': America's 3 Largest Psychiatric Facilities Are Jails

By some estimates, nearly half of the people confined in U.S. jails and prisons have a mental illness, notes Alisa Roth, author of <em>Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness.</em> (Getty Images)
By some estimates, nearly half of the people confined in U.S. jails and prisons have a mental illness, notes Alisa Roth, author of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness. (Getty Images)

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