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MENTAL HEALTH COURTS

By William Gelin

                                                    "HOW SPECIAL COURTS CAN SERVE JUSTICE AND HELP MENTALLY ILL OFFENDERS"by Emma SchwartzFebruary 7, 2008http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/national/2008/02/07/mental-health-courts.html "For years, courts have treated the mentally ill with the same dispassion accorded any other defendant. The results have been devastating. More than twice as many people with mental illness live in prisons as in state mental hospitals. When they are confined to tiny cells, their conditions often worsen, increasing their propensity to act out...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on February 08, 2008 (boomark / email).