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  The New Asylums

 

Jails like Cook County's are the nation's new insane asylums 

 Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart told newsmagazine "60 Minutes" during Sunday's feature on the repercussions untreated mental illness in America.

"There's no denying that jails and prisons are the new insane asylums -- that's what we are," Dart said .

"This is a population the people don't care about," Dart said of mentally ill inmates who languish in lockup or make return visits -- sometimes hundreds of times over. "As a result of that, there are not the resources out there to care for them."

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