A 'hellish world': the mental health crisis overwhelming America's prisons

In One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey describes two kinds of patients in the psychiatric hospital where the story is set: Acutes ("because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed") and Chronics (who are "in for good, the staff concedes").

When Kristopher Rodriguez, a 31-year-old man from Florida, first went into the US criminal justice system in 2008, it seemed like he would have been classified as an Acute; now nearly a decade later, he would almost certainly qualify as a Chronic.