Ninth Circuit Reviews California Prison Mental Healthcare Case
The Ninth Circuit held two hearings on Monday in a long-standing case focused on mental health care for California inmates, Courthouse...
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Jul 292 min read
In Maryland, Mentally Ill Wait In Jail Despite Court-Ordered Psychiatric Treatment
People with severe mental illness, accused of crimes in Maryland but deemed too sick by the courts to participate in their cases and who...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 181 min read
Podcast Reviews Unarmed First Responders' Successes, Challenges
Since 2015, one in every five people fatally shot by police in the U.S. has experienced a mental health crisis, according to tracking by...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 22 min read
TN Judges May Order Mental Care For Suspects Who Can't Stand Trial
Reacting to a Belmont University student's death from a stray bullet, Tennessee lawmakers passed a measure that would allow judges to...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 122 min read
How Mental Health Crises Land Hospital Patients in Jail
Under Washington state law, any assault on a healthcare worker can be a felony, including spitting, slapping, or other actions that might...
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Crime and Justice News
May 292 min read
Mississippi Hospital Transfers Some Mental Health Patients To Jail While Awaiting Treatment
Roughly 200 people in DeSoto County were jailed annually during the civil commitment process, most without criminal charges, between 2021...
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Crime and Justice News
May 221 min read
DOJ: In Minneapolis Suburb, Mental Health Calls No Longer Nuisances
Anoka, a suburb of Minneapolis, agreed not to disclose private medical information about renters with mental-health issues to resolve a...
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Crime and Justice News
May 62 min read
IL Man's Prison Death Shows Failures In Mental Health Care
Markus Johnson slumped naked against the wall of his Illinois prison cell in 2019, skin flecked with pepper spray. Four men in black...
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Crime and Justice News
May 12 min read
State Leaders Prioritize Bipartisan Action on Behavioral Health
In a sign of growing bipartisan momentum among state leaders to invest in behavioral health care, a review by The Pew Charitable Trusts...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 292 min read
A Call To End The 'Criminalization Of Mental Illness'
People with mental illness are disproportionately present in the nation’s criminal justice system. About two in five prisoners have a...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 252 min read
As Mental Health Workers Respond To More Crises, 988 Not Well Known
People experiencing mental or behavioral health crises and addiction often have been subject to police use of force, arrest and...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 221 min read
California Voters Approve Measure That Aims to House Homeless
A California bond initiative that enables the issuance of $6.4 billion in bonds to pay for housing for people with addiction and mental...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 182 min read
NJ Partnering Cops, Mental Health Workers Cut Uses Of Force, Arrests
Documents from the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office show that a program pairing police and mental health professionals to respond to...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 132 min read
MS Lawmakers Advance Bill Restricting People With Mental Illness From Being Jailed
On Tuesday morning, Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, got a phone call from a Mississippi community mental health center staffer who wanted to...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 81 min read
New State Tool, To Help Divert Those With Mental-Health Needs
The Council of State Governments Justice Center released a new tool this week, as part of its Aligning Health and Safety Initiative,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 232 min read
Justice Dept. Files Statement of Interest in D.C. Police-Response Suit
The U.S. Department of Justice today filed a statement of interest in Bread for the City v. District of Columbia, a lawsuit in the U.S....
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 261 min read
Florida Deputy Kills Elderly Woman Who Tried To Stab Him
A Florida police officer fatally shot an 81-year-old woman after she allegedly lunged at him wielding a knife, reports USA Today. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 122 min read
Mental Illness Overrepresented in Probation Population
Adults on probation are more than twice as likely to have a serious or moderate mental illness as those in the general public, found an...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 22 min read
Amid Addiction Crisis, A Move To OK Medicaid For Mental Hospitals
The linked crises of drug addiction and homelessness have Washington on the verge of embracing a health care provider it once repudiated:...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 29, 20232 min read
Kansas Medicaid Expansion Could Help Cut Jail Totals, Advocates Say
Experts and proponents of a potential Kansas Medicaid expansion say that it could reduce jail populations and reduce recidivism rates,...
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