Mississippi jailed more than 800 people awaiting psychiatric treatment in a year. Just one jail meets state standards. ...Middle East

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This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Mississippi Today. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. In Mississippi, many people awaiting court-ordered treatment for mental illness or substance abuse are jailed, even though they haven’t been charged with a crime. Read our full series here. Fourteen years ago, Mississippi legislators passed a law requiring county jails to be certified by the state if they held people awaiting court-ordered psychiatric treatment. Today, just one jail in the state is certified. And yet, from July 2022 to June 2023, more than 800 people awaiting treatment were j

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