The answer? The Riker's Island jail complex in New York and the Los Angeles County prison.
Having state and local jails serve as de facto mental health institutions is an awfully expensive way of treating people for mental illness. And when did it become the responsibility of corrections officials to oversee the treatment of the mentally ill?
These are questions Elizabeth Daigneau raised in a 2002 Governing story on the growing number of the mentally ill prisoners. It's been nearly four years since it ran. Has anything improved?
