"The Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago is one of the largest single-site pre-detention facilities in the world, with an average daily population hovering around 9,000 inmates. It is estimated that 35 % of this population is mentally ill. Now more patients than ever are being treated in jail rather than at a mental health facility. This series of photographic portraits and interviews with Cook County Jail inmates, as well as jail social workers and psychologists, reveals what it's like to live with mental illness and incarceration"-- Provided by publisher.
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