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Mental Illness and the Prison Industrial Complex

A new documentary on PBS called “The Definition of Insanity” examines mental illlness and the prison industrial complex. Steven Leifman, a judge for the eleventh circuit court of Florida, joins the program alongside Norm Ornstein, a resident scholar at The American Enterprise Institute, who helped commission the documentary.
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Season 2027 Episode 9015
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Jeremy Diamond; Michael Douglas; John Urschel
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