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>> josh was born into a family with a history of mental problems and adopted by a family who had no ability to cope with mental problems, and so he was doomed by biology and then by fate. when josh was 3 years old, the family took into the home two foster children, a girl and a boy. and josh underwent really horrible and extensive sexual abuse at the hand of scott. i think that it started out playing a little sex games and having him pose naked and then proceeded to full-scale anal intercourse and to josh being burned with cigarettes. against the background of all of this, josh is in a church ...

Into the orange county jail in southern california. some will be released in hours. others could be here for years, until their charges are resolved. they always begin their time at the intake center located at the central jail facility. >> orange county jail system is considered a mega jail. we have the ability to house over 7,000 inmates at one time. and the challenges we face pretty much reflect, to a certain degree, the challenges the community faces with gang affiliations, with drug abuse, mental problems, issues that would be better served in hospitals but given the current situation the...

>> well, this is going to be a bad show, because i agree with you. >> wow. not expecting that. >> we're not arguing. but notice what we're saying. the mental health laws partially under the pressure of privacy groups and partially because we deinstitutionalize people over the last 30 years, the mental health laws created now in a zone in which people can be extraordinarily dangerous, both to themselves and to the rest of us. and there's no way of being able to report it. this happened in the worst mass shooting in modern times, which was at virginia tech and the psychiatrist who had been seein...

Their daughter was strange, they she had quote, mental problems, and even said she would freak out sometimes for no reason at all and she needed to get help. listen to this. >> jodi has mental problems. jodi would freak out all the time. i had quite a few of her friends call and tell me i needed to get her help. we don't have a good relationship, me and jodi. she would flip out on me and i had one of her friends call me in the middle of the night and said you need to get jodi help. >> earlier i asked jane velez-mitchell about what she thought about the admissions on that tape. >> well, miguel,...

Willie? willie? will you come to the door, sir? >> willie, willie, you want to talk to a doctor? [ speaking spanish ] >> the ninth floor of the miami-dade pretrial detention center is a world unto itself. as part of the psychiatric unit, these cells are reserved for inmates with serious mental problems. >> sir, you all right? >> dr. joseph poitier is the jail's chief psychiatrist. he's worked at miami-dade for the past ten years. >> jails have, in effect, become mental institutions. i would say that 20% of those who are incarcerated have a mental illness. a large part suffer from schizophrenia...