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AZ: Support for mentally ill is essential to help prevent more people from jail and the streets

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Support for mentally ill is essential by Ann Rider - Jun. 2, 2009 12:00 AM Special for the Arizona Republic The tragic death of Marcia Powell, a mentally ill woman who died in an outdoor holding pen at Arizona State Prison Complex-Perryville, may be only the beginning. The Arizona Senate, in cutting over $76 million of funding in Senate Bill 1145 and Senate Bill 1188, may sentence people with psychiatric disabilities to the streets or prisons for support. In this newest round with the budget, the Republican Senate proposes to cut eligibility for services to only individuals below 100 percent of Federal Poverty Level. One of the proposals is to change the law that supports community services for individuals with mental illness, so that the state "may" provide services...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).