Alliance hoping to fix a mental health system in disarray
By Angelina Cole
Monday May 12, 2008
John Dixon
A psychiatric inmate lies huddled under a blanket in an isolation cell at the Champaign County Satellite Jail.
CHAMPAIGN – Fannie Griffin grew up under the guidance of a schizophrenic mother.
Her mother lived through World War II and reared seven children. Griffin also has a relative with mental illness, and in order to better understand him, she looked to the Champaign County chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
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