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Ever since state mental hospitals have been shut down, many mentally ill have ended up on our streets and then in jails and prisons. Indeed, approximately one-third of our nation's inmates are mentally ill, and getting little to no treatment while incarcerated. But today's guest, Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren, author of Court of Refuge: Stories from the Bench of America's First Mental Health Court, has begun to change this and make it a more compassionate system. Judge Lerner-Wren tells the story of the court's growth from an offshoot of her criminal division to a court that has successfully div
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