Episode: Imprisoned for Having a Mental Illness

Idaho Reports

Idaho is unique in many ways, but it unfortunately stands out in one policy area. It's the only state that still uses its prison system to house certain mental health patients — those whose condition a court has deemed "dangerously mentally ill" — even though they have committed no crime. ProPublica reporter Audrey Dutton joins Logan Finney this week to discuss this particular prison unit, the civil rights concerns that accompany it, and how debates over the practice stretch back decades at the Idaho statehouse. Read Audrey's reporting: https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-keeps-some-psychiatric-patients-in-prison-ignoring-decades-of-warnings-about-the-practice