In this June 26, 2014 photo, an inmate uses a phone at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Unlike prisons where inmates serve extended sentences, jails hold those trying to make bail while awaiting trial, or serving shorter terms. Experts have pointed to rising number of inmates with mental illnesses since the 1970s, not long after states began closing psychiatric hospitals without following through on promises to create and sustain comprehensive community treatment programs. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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