Sep 11, 2014 26 min

America's New Bedlam

from The Documentary Podcast: Archive 2014 Hosted by BBC World Service

Hilary Andersson investigates the more than one million mentally ill prisoners held in US jails and prisons, most of whom are incarcerated for relatively minor offences.

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