It easily goes into the hundreds of thousands, and when people with mental illness end up in jail, off their meds, they often stack up all sorts of charges for

It easily goes into the hundreds of thousands, and when people with mental illness end up in jail, off their meds, they often stack up all sorts of charges for relatively minor behavior that sounds ominous on paper as "assault on a penal officer" or somesuch. Now you can get bail in the millions, and prejudice from every corner of the system. It's no longer about a straw, it's about a guard who says you punched them when in face five people were holding you and you had a spasm or something.