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Who Said That?

"We had no idea we were signing up for the mental health business back then."

-- Kenneth Adkins, an Orange County corrections officer

In Florida, jails and prisons have replaced mental hospitals. They are “the asylums of the new millennium,” according to the Florida Supreme Court.

125,000 people with mental illness are incarcerated in Florida jails and prisons annually, most of them for misdemeanor and low-level felonies

Read more at the Orlando Sentinel.