many untreatedened up in new asil up ums.n 44 states and the district of columbia, the largest mental health providers are gaols in prisons, not hospitals, once incarcerated people with mental illness are locked up eight times longer than people without mental illnesses, at 7-times the cost to taxpayers, a judge in florida made it his mission to change the system, doing all he can do take mental illness out of the criminal justice system and stop making america's gaols a new asylum. >> we are responding. >> there's someone hurting herself. she may go by. depending what goes in there now. and making contact. >> serious mental illness made their homes in the streets. police officers now handle thousands of mental health related calls in a year, anything from suicide attempts breaks. >> the guards want to kill herself. they know how the city's mental health crisis became a criminal justice nightmare, but thanks to the vision of this man, they have become the first step of a solution. steven is a judge from the country division.