Chicago taxpayers will spend $22.5 million to compensate a mentally-ill California woman who was arrested and held overnight, then released in a high-crime neighborhood, where she was kidnapped and sexually assaulted before falling from a seventh-floor window of a CHA high-rise.
City to pay $22.5 million to bipolar woman released in high-crime area – Chicago
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January 15, 2013 Tags: news
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For more than a decade, Milwaukee County’s jail system has been under the scrutiny of a court-appointed medical monitor for its failure to provide adequate health care, including for inmates with mental illness.
In August, the monitor found mental health care in the county’s two jails was still in shambles. Among the problems: Vacancies in top …
December 28, 2012 Tags: news
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Valley Cities Counseling and Consultation, in conjunction with the SCORE jail, New Connections of South King County and Washington State University-Spokane, has received a $1.1 million grant to develop, implement and assess a “forensic peer support” model aimed at helping those with mental illness reduce their recidivism rate in the criminal justice system.
The two-year grant …
December 9, 2011 Tags: news, WA
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Paul Heroux: Mental Illness as Key
Mental Illness in Jail
One particular population in any jail or prison stands out more than any other, and that population is the one afflicted by a mental illness. Jails and prisons are the new asylums.
Consider that when I was working in the Philadelphia prison system, I looked at the percent of inmates who were identified …
December 27, 2011 Tags: commentary, news, PA
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