As William Kelly argues in this book, the local jail is likely the the de facto mental health institution in any given city. Assuming you became the sheriff and were in charge of the local jail in your city, identify and describe at least one novel innovation that you would implement in order to make your facility more equipped to serve persons with serious mental illnesses. Elaborate. Your idea should be creative, but also realistic.
Next, William Kelly discusses how the crime decline of the 1990s coincided with the historic escalation of incarceration rates. In your opinion, is this merely a coincidence or is there a causal relationship between incarceration rates and low crime rates? In other words, does mass incarceration make society a safer place? Please take a position either way, and fully support it.
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