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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20232 min read
EMPATH Model Improves Mental Health Crisis Response
In the decade since an Oakland hospital created an alternative to dumping people in psychiatric crises on overwhelmed hospital emergency...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 11, 20231 min read
WA Held In Contempt, Fined For Not Serving Mentally Ill Defendants
A federal judge found Washington state in contempt and ordered it to pay more than $100 million in fines for failing to provide timely...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 22, 20231 min read
Texas Will Collect Data on Mental Health Care in Jails
A new law signed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott will require the state to collect data on how often jail inmates are denied mental health...
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Crime and Justice News
May 30, 20232 min read
Mentally Ill Inmates Crowd Psychiatric Hospitals
A large number of mentally ill jail inmates is overwhelming psychiatric hospitals across the U.S., a Wall Street Journal analysis of...
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Crime and Justice News
May 26, 20232 min read
Survey Finds Most U.S. Adults Unaware of 988 Suicide Line
Nine months after the launch of the nationwide 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, just 13% of adults in the U.S. have heard of it and know...
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Crime and Justice News
May 18, 20231 min read
Biden Spends Hundreds Of Millions On Better Mental Health Services
The White House announced hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding to expand, improve and support mental health services across the...
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Crime and Justice News
May 16, 20231 min read
Man Assaults Congressional Staffers With Baseball Bat
A man with a metal baseball bat assaulted two staffers in the Virginia office of Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA) on Monday, then smashed...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20232 min read
Adams Defends Forced Hospitalizing After Jordan Neely's Subway Death
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the chokehold killing of a mentally distressed subway rider reinforces the importance of his divisive...
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Crime and Justice News
May 9, 20233 min read
Will Greater Focus On Mental Health Reduce Gun Violence?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is calling for more resources for mental health after the mass shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Tex., in which...
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Crime and Justice News
May 9, 20232 min read
NJ Study: Less Violence When Cops Pair With Mental Health Experts
A Brookings Institution analysis of a New Jersey initiative that pairs police with mental health experts found that nearly every call...
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Crime and Justice News
May 7, 20231 min read
Man Who Put NYC Subway Rider In Fatal Chokehold Claims Self-Defense
Daniel Penny, the college student and Marine veteran accused of putting Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway, says...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 30, 20232 min read
Will VA Man's Suffocation Prompt Mental Health Reform?
As hundreds gathered Wednesday to memorialize Irvo Otieno, who was suffocated by sheriff's deputies at a Virginia mental hospital,...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 29, 20232 min read
988 Suicide-Crisis Hotline Gets More Calls, Needs Additional Funding
Almost everyone agrees that putting money behind the national suicide and crisis hotline is a good thing. Not everyone thinks a new phone...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 23, 20232 min read
Texas Grapples With Mental Health Services Instead of Jail
County commissioners in Texas' Travis County, which includes Austin, gave a green light to develop a new behavioral health diversion...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Democratic Mayors Turn To Mental Treatment To Fight Homelessness
Eric Adams was “really disturbed” by the proposal, he said on the debate stage during New York City’s 2021 mayoral primary, reports...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 6, 20232 min read
States Seek Mental Health Funds; GOP Says That May Cut Shootings
Governors and lawmakers in many states are seeking billions of dollars in funding increases for mental health this year, as Republicans...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 11, 20232 min read
New National 988 Suicide Helpline Is Flooded With 2 Million Calls, Texts
When Jamieson Brill answers a crisis call from a Spanish speaker on the newly launched national 988 mental health helpline, he rarely...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 30, 20222 min read
NYC To Remove Mentally Ill From Streets Against Their Will
Acting to address “a crisis we see all around us” in a year that has seen a string of high-profile crimes involving homeless people, New...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 18, 20222 min read
NYC Public Advocate Chides City for Lagging Mental Health Response
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said last month that mental illness was the primary reason crime is up in the city's subways. Yet when the...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20222 min read
988 Number Replacing Suicide Lifeline Gets More Use
After a grandmother calls a mental health crisis line for help after her grandson with intellectual disabilities and a history of mental...
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