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FRONTLINE

The Released

Season 2009 Episode 9 | 54m 05s

What happens to the mentally ill when they leave America's prisons? Why do they return at such alarming rates ?

Aired: 04/27/09
Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by the Ford Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Trust with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen.