More than 6,300 people with mental illness are locked up in Virginia jails, and a new report from the inspector general says they’re not getting the care required by law. Sandy Hausman reports that sheriffs are now demanding more money to provide mental health services.
Mental Health Care in Virginia’s Jails
- Leave a comment
Subscribe to our RSS Feed
From NPR News- Special elections ordered for Mississippi Supreme Court after voting rights violation
- Opinion: Remembering the lives lost to a senseless act of terror
- U.S. launches strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State fighters after American deaths
- White House announces new round of drug-price deals
- Trump's push to end transgender care for young people opposed by pediatricians
- It was called the Kennedy Center, but 3 different presidents shaped it
- DOJ releases Epstein files and the first batch is short on new information
- Judge blocks HUD homelessness overhaul, rebukes agency for causing 'chaos'
- Scientists push back on Trump plan to break up a critical climate and weather center
- A Reddit post helped find MIT and Brown shooting suspect. Here's what we know
- From BBC News
- Photo of Andrew lying on laps at Sandringham in new Epstein files
- When roads will be busiest and supermarket hours: How to navigate the Christmas break
- William takes George to homeless charity he visited as a child with Diana
- Appeal to all MI5 staff for information in BBC spy case
- Strictly stars gear up for final, with Tess and Claudia set to bow out
- What's really going on with flu this winter
- Pantone's white Colour of the Year sparks backlash
- Famous faces, court documents and redacted pages - what's in the Epstein files
- Australia was seen as a world leader in gun control - Bondi has exposed a more complicated reality
- Are these AI prompts damaging your thinking skills?
Virginia Public Radio 