According to Kaiser Health News (8/4, Houghton), the US “criminal justice system has long been a revolving door for defendants with a mental illness.” What’s more, “the national nonprofit Treatment Advocacy Center, which advocates to make treatment for a severe mental illness more accessible, found that as of 2017, 21 states made little-to-no effort to create programs that treat those defendants,” a failure that “leaves individuals without stability, and some go on to hurt themselves or others.”
Related Links:
— “When Mental Illness Leads to Dropped Charges, Patients Often Go Without Stabilizing Care “Katheryn Houghton, Kaiser Health News, August 4, 2022