APNewsBreak: In Chicago, triage for mentally ill before jail
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 14:01
in Psychology & Sociology
CHICAGO (AP) -- One of the nation's most crowded jails may get relief later this year with the opening of a 24-hour triage center in Chicago where police can take people experiencing psychiatric or substance-abuse crises. The goal is to ease pressure on the county jail, where officials have long complained that about a fifth of the detainees are locked up because of mental health problems....