The Los Angeles County board of supervisors approved a motion Tuesday to create an intensive care unit at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility, adding 16 mental health beds.
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The unit will care for those who are jailed and in need of mental help and stabilizing inmates so they aren't a danger to themselves or others.
According to correctional health services, about 12% of all inmates at the jail suffer from some type of mental illness.
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