A staggering 48% of Big Apple inmates with mental illness end up back in jail within a year of their release — yet the city’s $250 million-a-year mental health program ThriveNYC has no targeted initiatives to help them. The startling revelation came at a city council hearing Monday about preventing recidivism for people with mental illnesses.

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