Not long ago, one out of every five prisoners in America was a Vietnam vet. More and more veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are showing up behind bars and many are being charged with violent crime. Experts are saying that there’s a common thread that often runs through these cases, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.
Increasingly, post traumatic stress is taking center stage across the country, in the jails and in the courthouses. It’s believed that hundreds of thousands of recent vets are suffering from PTSD, but what’s making some of them snap? And what is being done to combat what many see as an approaching storm?