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Precise numbers are difficult to pin point but prisons in England and Wales are full of people with mental health problems and are increasing. This week, Joshua Rozenberg looks at mental health and the criminal justice system and asks how joined up is mental health system and the criminal justice system? Are they in tune with each other?

Joshua spends the morning with the Norfolk Police and one of their new custody centres to see what happens when someone is first brought into the criminal justice system. What do the Police do if they arrest offenders with mental health problems and what happens to them? And Joshua talks to a local solicitor who specialises in crime and one of the country's top forensic psychiatrists who express concerns about the numbers of people with mental health issues who are sent to prison.

Producer: Jim Frank.