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Forget the Hospital, Go to Prison: Jared Loughner and the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

Jared Lee Loughner could soon join the ranks of mentally ill prisoners across the country, if convicted. Mansfield Frazier on how prisons have become the last resort for the mentally ill.

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A mentally ill prisoner in the County Jail in Nashville, in 1998. (Credit: Stephen Ferry / Getty Images),Stephen Ferry

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