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Reduce number of mentally ill languishing in jail

For an informative discussion of the transportation and disposition of mentally ill people who're detained by police but not charged with any crime, see the discussion of SB 32 at the tail end of the first part of this morning's hearing of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee (video here, runs for about 12 minutes starting at the 1:24:12 mark).I thought Sen. Zaffirini offered compelling arguments when laying out her bill, which focuses on cases where a mentally ill person is taken into custody by police without being charged with a crime.Such folks would be taken to jail only if a suitable mental health or medical facility is not available and the nearest facility approved by the local mental health authority is more than 75 miles away...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).