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APNewsBreak: In Chicago, triage for mentally ill before jail

AP Health News - Fetched: February 25th, 2016, 2:00pm UTC

CHICAGO (AP) -- One of the nationamp;apos;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....

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