The mentally ill at risk of being jailed include adults like Helen Rose Akanni, a woman with paranoid schizophrenia who was mistakenly charged with drunken driving and held for a week before a psychiatrist saw her.

• 处于被拘留危险的精神病患者包括像海伦·罗斯·阿肯尼这样的成年妇女，她患有妄想狂性精神分裂症，被误控为酒后驾驶而关了一个星期，直到精神病科医生看到她才被放了出来。