Richmond's Jail: The Snake Pit From the Special report: Jails' mental health challenges go back decades series Oct 14, 2007 Oct 14, 2007 Updated 8 hrs ago 0 Prefer us on Google Learn More Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Last Sunday featured what, to some, seems almost old news: an exposé of conditions at the Richmond City Jail, particularly for those inmates who suffer from mental illness. The reporting by David Ress and the photos by Eva Russo told the harrowing story of individuals for whom the jail is something akin to home, as defined by Robert Frost in "The Death of the Hired Man" -- "the place where, when you have to go there,/They have to take you in." The mentally ill who cannot fend for themselves have to go somewhere. The jail has to take them in. 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