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mentally ill

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mentally ill
adj.
Suffering from a mental illness.
n. (used with a pl. verb)
People who are mentally ill considered as a group. Often used with the.
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Adj.1.mentally ill - suffering from severe mental illnessmentally ill - suffering from severe mental illness; "of unsound mind"
insane - afflicted with or characteristic of mental derangement; "was declared insane"; "insane laughter"


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This resulted in many of the mentally ill living homelessly, often self-medicating with illicit drugs, and experiencing a revolving door from prison to street.
Some days mentally ill people come closer to numbering one out of every four in the jailÕs 3,000-plus-inmate population.
In spite of general improvements in conditions, severe problems have continued, spurred on, in particular, by a dramatic growth in the number and percentage of mentally ill offenders who now populate our jails and prisons.
 
 
 
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