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Approximately 20% of all Americans are mentally ill. Unlike other chronic illnesses, mental illness is treated punitively, in the harshest public facility available... prison. Mental illness receives minimal support though federal and state funds. Having failed to create community health centers which were promised as far back as the Nixon Administration, America has defaulted to incarcerating the mentally ill, a practice not implemented since the late 1800s. Challenging our nation to upgrade services for the "least among us," Bonita Williams shares her personal walk of faith, guiding her son through this abyss referred to as the mental healthcare system in America.