A rare and intimate look into the lives of mentally ill offenders struggling to make it on the outside. This year alone, over 700,000 people will leave prison, more than half of them mentally ill. Typically, these offenders leave prison with a bus ticket, $75 in cash, and two weeks worth of medication. Within 18 months, nearly two-thirds will be re-arrested.
View Frontline's new program ' The Released,' which documents what happens to offenders with mental illness when they leave prison.
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