California Forward
Upcoming meetings on intersection of mental health and criminal justice will ask community members and county agencies about what’s working, what’s not.
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Steps to improve treatment of incarcerated presented to California council dedicated to ending the criminalization of mental illness
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Mentally ill offenders stayed in Riverside County jails for longer periods of time and were booked more often.
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Board of Supervisors approved this week recommendations to improve public safety outcomes and cut costs with advice and analysis from CA Fwd.
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In some places, ten times the number of seriously mentally ill are incarcerated than the number housed in state psychiatric hospitals.
read morePromising partnership with county and nonprofit having impact on high rate of return to jail by the formerly incarcerated.
read moreParticipants in reentry program receive workshops, employment services, even the loan of business attire.
read moreRate of serious mental illness in prison populations shown to be two to four times higher than the community populations
read morePartnership with County will use data to drive creation of cost-effective solutions to reduce the need for incarceration.
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