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Lower utilization by 'frequent flyers' to reduce pressure on jail

In my essay on my recent Harris County Jail tour, I described how a relatively small number of "frequent flyers" account for a huge proportion of jail utilization. In reaction, Lillian Aguirre Ortiz from Mental Health America of Greater Houston forwarded me a couple of documents assessing outcomes of a pilot program at the Houston Police Department. (See here and here.) Called the Chronic Consumer Stabilization Initiative, the pilot focuses on community-based efforts to reduce jail, hospital and police utilization for the 30 Houstonians suffering from severe mental illness who are responsible for the most police calls. (She sent the same materials to Charles Kuffner, who beat me to the punch posting about it. See also coverage of the program from the Houston Press and a column in the Houston Chronicle from attorney George Parnham...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 08, 2010 (boomark / email).