e common traits found in criminals. In fact, state prisons, federal prisons and local jails have had 20, 19, and 30% respectively, of their inmates having been homeless at least one year prior to the arrest. Considering that mentally ill are approximately one third of the homeless population, its not hard to believe that it is estimated that 16, 8, and 16% of those incarcerated in state, federal, and local facilities are mentally ill.
             This has quite an impact on the Criminal Justice System. In fact, law enforcement and corrections officers will say that they're at 'ground-zero' of our country's mental health crisis. (Congress 2000) In fact statisti
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