Across the U.S., jails have become the first line of treatment for many of the mentally ill. The cost: Patchwork care and inmate suicides. One Louisiana jail reveals the human toll. The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison, a squat brick building with low-slung ceilings and walls sometimes smeared with fe...
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