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Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?

Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?

Update: 2025-09-18
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Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Sarah Stillman explains why so many people with mental illness are starving to death in U.S. jails, who is profiting, and what can be done to prevent it.


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Sarah Stillman, Staff Writer, New Yorker; Founder, Yale Investigative Reporting Lab


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Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?

Why Are People With Mental Illness Starving to Death in Jail?