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# Fractured
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/frontline/extras/fractured/
- Published: 2024-04-02T22:52:59.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T15:55:21.000Z
- Description: Defendants deemed too sick to stand trial face long waits for mental health care in N.C.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: FRONTLINE, #ZZZ_Show_8d45e56c-70b3-4c33-a2eb-1c2ac36ca879, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_3e9ceaac-ed70-4841-8870-82c2b3fd5c83, #extra

FRONTLINE, WFAE & Firelight Media investigate the long waits for mental health care that defendants who are deemed too sick to stand trial face in North Carolina. The documentary examines how the country’s mental health crisis is playing out within the criminal justice system in North Carolina, a state where it’s been harder to access mental health care than in most others.