We have an enormous problem with sending mentally ill people to jail. That's been going on since the 1980s when we entered into the de-institutionalization of mental health facilities and we dumped these people on the street. We're still paying the price for that. For the most part, the system is not really set up to deal with the mentally ill, but in some cases that's where they are being sent.
On April 20th, 2010. See this statement in context.