YOUNGSTOWN - After a suicide occurred in a Mahoning County hospital, officials are working towards bringing back a psychiatric facility for the county.

In a commissioners meeting Thursday, officials said a lock-in facility needs to come back to support the ongoing crisis that they're seeing.

“Mental illness is like any other illness: cancer, heart, diabetes, it's part of that type of an illness and it's the most underserved population," Carol Rimedio-Righetti, Mahoning County Commissioner said.

It would work alongside the psych units inside of hospitals and the mental health support the jail provides. The difference is any level of crisis would get help - not just the most severe.

“Our numbers justify it when you look at our criminal justice system and the problems that we’re facing,

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