The Washington Post (7/23, Morse) reports that yesterday, in response “to an increase in the number of arrestees with acute mental illness, law enforcement leaders in Montgomery County,” MD, announced that “they are looking to set up a special court geared toward treatment rather than punishment.” Were Montgomery County to establish a mental health court, it would join three other Maryland jurisdictions with such courts: “Prince George’s County, Harford County and Baltimore City.”
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— “Montgomery County weighs setting up a mental health court,” Dan Morse, Washington Post, July 22, 2015.