As jails increasingly serve as mental health facilities, treatment programs geared toward the mentally ill have become more common than programs designed for inmates without mental health problems.

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While jails are increasingly serving as de facto mental health facilities, and there has been a push to implement more mental health treatment programs, programs designed for inmates without mental health problems still predominate in most correctional systems. The expansion of mental health programs, although significant, has not yet surpassed the prevalence of general inmate programs.

As Jails Increasingly Serve as Mental Health Facilities, Treatment Programs