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Johnson, 32, at Chastity's Gold Club.

Police said Herring was angry after being kicked out of the club and fired at least one shot, which went through the club's door and struck Johnson in the head.

Authorities said he was arrested at his home a few hours after the shooting, but not before he pointed a gun at deputies.

They shot back, wounding Herring in the arm.

"They just came busting in.

I don't have any idea why they're here," Herring said during the 911 call.

"I played golf, and I came home and went to bed.

And all of a sudden, they just come busting in, busted down the front door, came in shooting up my house.

That's not the Sheriff's Department." Deputies stormed Herring's home, firing 16 times.

On the tape, dispatchers ask Herring to put the gun down and surrender.

"Well, this whole thing is really mysterious to me," Herring said.

During the call, a dispatcher radioed a deputy, who says: "Tell him we need to talk to him about something that happened earlier tonight, and we have a warrant and we're already inside the house.

He needs to come out and leave the handgun in the room." That wasn't enough for Herring.

"Yeah, but what's the warrant for?

That's all I want to know," he says.

Herring's lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, said Herring wasn't wearing his hearing aids and didn't hear deputies knocking at the door.

"He was unaware that he had done anything wrong whatsoever, because he, in f...

...ba href=/bipolar disorder/a/b, has been charged with murder in the Jan.

29 shooting death of John H.

Johnson, 32, at Chastity's Gold Club.

Police said Herring was angry after being kicked out of the club and fired at least one shot, which went through the club's door and hit Johnson.

Authorities said he was arrested at his home a few hours after the shooting.

"They just came busting in.

I don't have any idea why they're here," Herring said during the 911 call.

"I played golf, and I came home and went to bed." Herring's lawyer, Dick Harpootlian, said Herring wasn't wearing his hearing aids and didn't hear deputies knocking at the door.

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The California state system reports that 31,000 inmates, or 18 percent of the inmate population, are receiving mental health services.

The closing of state and local mental health hospitals has led to high rates of the mentally ill behind bars because there are no adequate alternatives to replace them, Human Rights Watch said.

"One of the largest mental health care providers in the nation is Los Angeles County jail system," Doolen said.

Prisons are now the nation's primary facilities for the mentally ill, with three times as many patients in prisons as in mental health hospitals, according to Human Rights Watch.

The cost to treat mental illness is significant.

One mood-stabilizing drug, for example, costs $350 for a 30-day supply, Moore said.

Finally, there's the issue of rising prescription costs.

Pharmaceutical costs have been rising by the double digits in recent years as drug makers spend more on development and marketing costs and face tougher federal regulations.

Sometimes, states get together to buy medicines in bulk from one distributor and private companies can work deals.

But supplying the pharmacies can represent as much of 12 percent to 15 percent of the total prison health care spending annually, Pomeroy said.

Prison budgets pinched Rising medical costs have meant rising prison budgets.

In Delaware, the proposed correction budget for 2007 is more than double that for 1996, ...