A mentally ill inmate has waited in a Georgia isolation cell 468 days for help. He's not alone.

BUCHANAN, Ga. - For 468 days and counting, Winston Powell has known little else than the walls of a barren isolation cell, his only companions the untamed thoughts ricocheting inside his head.

"This is wrong," stressed Haralson County Sheriff Stacy Williams. "These are people."

If the Haralson County Jail had a frequent flier program, Powell, 28, would already be a lifetime Diamond member, charged 10 times over the last 10 years with a string of nonviolent crimes.