Jail time is not a cure-all -Raleigh (NC) News & Observer

Last June, Charles "Bronson" Williams was off his psychiatric medications, high on drugs and just a little bit drunk when he stormed into his parents' home near Pittsboro and threatened to kill his mother.

"He ripped the phone lines out of the wall and kept walking toward me with those wild eyes," said Wilma Williams.

Luckily, a neighbor had called a few minutes earlier to warn Wilma that her son was on a rampage. Wilma had already called the police.

By the end of the day, Bronson Williams, 38, diagnosed bipolar and schizo-affective, was secured where far too many of the state's mentally ill end up: in jail.

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