Any Given Day
Cook County, Illinois is trying an alternative approach to cases in which defendants suffer from a mental illness: treatment.
Caught in the ever-evolving overlap of mental healthcare policy and criminal justice reform we meet Chicagoans Angela, Daniel, and Dimitar. The trio participate in the Cook County Mental Health Court, established to divert people with mental illnesses who have committed “crimes of survival.” Any Given Day invites us into the stories behind their crimes, underlying tensions of race and class, and the hard-fought triumphs that pave the way from incarceration to mental health treatment.