Filmmaker Karen O'Connor on Frontline's The Released - Part 1.

More than 700,000 will be released fro prison nationally this year. Half of them are mentally ill. This goes back to the Reagan Administration. Frontline looks at the result.

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Jack is a journalist, former CIA Officer and former prosecuting attorney. Jack represents the next generation of journalists who embrace new media from video, audio, print and other forms of electronic media. And his expertise clearly sets him apart.While Jack works as a freelance journalist, he has appeared on MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel, C-SPAN, NPR, and just about everywhere else. His goal has always been and will continue to be to go where the stories are happening and to provide the most in-depth reporting available.Jack has reported and broadcast programs from around the world including Darfur, Kosovo, Israel, Palestine, Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, England, Germany, Italy and the United Nations. However, he has also reported from the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the areas most impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Of course, Jack will be at both the Republican and Democratic National Conventions.