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Thursday, December 27, 2007

MENTAL HEALTH: Hard time

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MENTAL HEALTH: Hard time

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Registered nurse Wendy Wing passes out medications three times daily at the Douglas County Jail as she is doing for this inmate, who holds out his hand in anticipation in the administrative segregation area of the Douglas County Jail. This year, the jail lodged some 85 people who were given psychotropic medications at a cost that reached about $55,000.
Registered nurse Wendy Wing passes out medications three times daily at the Douglas County Jail as she is doing for this inmate, who holds out his hand in anticipation in the administrative segregation area of the Douglas County Jail. This year, the jail lodged some 85 people who were given psychotropic medications at a cost that reached about $55,000.ENLARGE
Registered nurse Wendy Wing passes out medications three times daily at the Douglas County Jail as she is doing for this inmate, who holds out his hand in anticipation in the administrative segregation area of the Douglas County Jail. This year, the jail lodged some 85 people who were given psychotropic medications at a cost that reached about $55,000.
ANDY BRONSON / N-R staff photo

From the streets to the jail to the courtroom, the criminal justice system grapples with the fallout of mental illness

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