How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars

How poverty and mental illness are putting more people behind bars

PBS NewsHour

InläsarePBS NewsHour
Längd7 min
Språken
FörlagNewsHour Productions
ISBN9781987108330

More Americans than ever before are spending time in jail despite a drop in the crime rate in the past two decades. That's according to a new report that also found that a disproportionate number of people in jail suffer from mental illness. Judy Woodruff discusses the findings with Nicholas Turner of the Vera Institute of Justice and Margo Schlanger of the University of Michigan.