GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) – The Pitt County Sheriff’s Office will be working to improve the state of mental health in jails across the country thanks to a grant.
Deputies have been keeping track of 25 inmates in Pitt County that have been in jail more than 480 times in the last 15 years. These 25 people have cost tax payers $1.5 million. The hope is the grant will allow researchers further insight into the faulty system to help find solutions to the problems many jails are seeing in relation to mental health.
