Webjudge leifman said people with mental illness are nine times more likely to be incarcerated than hospitalized, and that at any given time, about 550,000 people with. Webthe municipal courts of lake county, their respective probation departments, the lake county adamhs board and lake county sheriff daniel a. Dunlap, the jail treatment. Webin this article, we describe the use of isolation (called segregation by prison officials) to confine prisoners with serious mental illness, the psychological consequences of such. Webin 1995 the inmates at lake county jail won a lawsuit against the county that stated the jail was violating the due process of law, freedom from cruel and unusual. Webovercrowding, understaffing and poor treatment for inmates with mental health issues held in los angeles jails underscore growing failures in america's mental.
