Are prisons the new asylums?

When Australia closed down its asylums in the 90s, there was meant to be a new system to replace it. The idea was that people with severe mental illness would still get the help they needed outside the four walls of an outdated and often harmful institution. But that's not always what's happened. Today on The Signal, meet the people begging for help, and not getting it. We discover how they were let down by Australia’s mental health system, and the extreme consequences of that failing. Featured: Elise Worthington, reporter, ABC Investigations Unit