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Summary:

Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's state prison system to explore the complex and growing issue of mentally ill prisoners.

Contributors:

Navasky, Miri

O'Connor, Karen

Mead Street Films (Firm)

WGBH Educational Foundation

PBS Video

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Closed-captioned.
In English.

Related Works:

Frontline (Television program)

Subjects:

Mentally ill prisoners — Care — Ohio

Mentally ill — Care — Ohio

Criminal justice, Administration of — Ohio

Mentally ill prisoners

Mentally ill — Care

Mentally ill.

Criminal justice, Administration of

Ohio

Genres:

Motion pictures

Documentary television programs

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

DVD-R.

Performers:

Narrated by Will Lyman.

Production Credits:

Photography, Ben McCoy ; editor, Daisy Wright.

General Notes:

Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Frontline on May 10, 2005.
Includes: optional audio commentary with Miri Navasky and Karen O'Connor.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

NEW 2005 DVD

Other Standard Numbers:

Publisher Number, PBS Video: FRL72313

OCLC Numbers:

1053365053
60563008 [Invalid]