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'You can't get out': Mentally ill languish in California jails without trial or treatment
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHundreds of mentally ill detainees incarcerated across California in recent years have languished in...
How the forced hospitalization of 'mentally ill' people in need will work in NYC
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNew York City Mayor Eric Adams has directed the NYPD and peace officers to take individuals who...
Miami jails are safer for inmates, including the mentally ill. That’s the way it should be | Opinion
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMiami jails are safer for inmates, including the mentally ill. That’s the way it should be It was...
Lenawee County starting program aimed at reducing mentally ill people in justice system
The Daily Telegram via Yahoo News· 1 year agoADRIAN — Lenawee County is implementing a new program called Stepping Up, which applies a...
Why is a legally free man still living behind bars? Our system fails the mentally ill.
USA TODAY Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoImagine spending nearly 20 years in prison. Imagine, after the first decade, being diagnosed with a...
Keeping the mentally ill out of jail
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPreventing mentally ill individuals with drug and alcohol disorders from ending up in the judicial system is one of the goals of the Helen Ross McNabb Center in Knoxville, said Candace Allen ...
California debates solitary confinement in local jails — and whether it's really possible to end it
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAn inmate stands in his cell at the main jail in downtown Sacramento. A California Assembly bill to...
'Criminalizing the most vulnerable': Should the mentally ill be behind bars?
Yahoo News via AOL· 1 year agoPolicymakers and activists are questioning if jails and prisons are equipped to adequately care for...
Incarcerated Mississippians with mental illness face nation’s second-longest wait for care
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMississippians who need mental health treatment before they can stand trial have to wait in jail...
Judy Guenseth: Treat mental health needs before crimes are committed
The Register-Mail via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn our progressive society, it is hard to understand that some areas of organized American culture...