Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley 2013

people. the money for that dried up with our california economy going south. and when they go off their meds, then they go back to the behavior that leads to a law enforcement solution. >> that was not the place for him to get the help he needed. >> reporter: catherine wooten of los angeles called 911 for help from her 23-year-old son terrence suffered a mental breakdown in october of 2011. >> the police came and i thought that they were going to take him to the hospital but he wound up in county jail. >> reporter: police tell us with few mental health beds available at state facilities, they have no choice but to leave the fate of people like terrence wooten to the criminal justice system. >> they have a mental ward in county but he wasn't really getting the counseling and the therapy that he needed. >> reporter: you're not a psychiatrist and that jail isn't a hospital. >> i'm not a psychiatrist. the jail has become a hospital and a defacto way for the mentally ill.

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