It's wrong that they're sitting warehoused for that. That's something we need to address. But deeper than that, look at the reason why so many of them there, like I talked about, It's mental health problems, it's substance abuse disorder. We need to do a better job recognizing those problems when they're small. and having some resources to deal with them before it becomes a big problem. We're shooting ourselves in the foot by not doing that. But it's expensive and it's hard. (29:01–29:12)
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