Mental Health Care Additions in Works at Jail

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County officials plan to open a 20-bed psychiatric unit at the Jennifer Road Detention Center in Annapolis this spring to expand mental health care services for inmates and improve safety.

"We want to help them so they don't come back (to jail)," said Superintendent Robert Baker, estimating about 200 of the county's 1,023 inmates are receiving some kind of psychiatric treatment.

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Mental Health Care Additions in Works at Jail

Frank Sullivan, executive director of the county's Mental Health Agency, describ...

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