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Stephen Eide\\xa0joins City Journal associate editor\\xa0Seth Barron\\xa0to discuss how America\'s health-care system fails the mentally ill, and the steps that cities and states are taking to keep the mentally ill out of jail and\\xa0get them\\xa0into treatment.

Urban areas have seen a disturbing rise in street disorder and homelessness over the last decade. Unfortunately,\\xa0many of the street homeless\\xa0suffer from serious\\xa0mental illnesses,\\xa0such as\\xa0schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Despite\\xa0federalspending\\xa0of about\\xa0$150 billion annually on mental illness programs, individuals with the most severe diagnoses areoften\\xa0thrown into a\\xa0repeating\\xa0cycle of jail stays, homelessness, and hospitalizations.

In response, many states and cities are developing\\xa0their own methods to keep the\\xa0severely\\xa0mentally ill out of jail.Launched in 2000,\\xa0Miami-Dade County\'s Criminal Mental Health Project is one of the nation\'s most admired\\xa0and successful of these programs.