Two people are interviewed. One is in charge of Alameda County’s mental health program in the jails. The other is a former inmate who has turned her life around. Taped September 17, 2008

Discussion Questions for Mental Health in Jail

Resources for Mental Health in Jail

Notes on music and art:
The composer of the music and the painters of the pictures used in the show lived with serious mental health problems.

Music:
Promenade from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky

Paintings:
The Parable of the Good Samaritan by Francesco Bassano
Old Man in Sorrow by Vincent van Gogh

The Erythraean Sibyl (Sistine Chapel) by Michelangelo

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