Binghamton police officers get training on dealing with persons with mental illness
Last year, Bob Corliss of MHANYS worked with the MHA of the Southern Tier to set up a conference on fostering better collaboration between mental health agencies and criminal justice agencies. One of the programs the conference focused on was the Emotionally Disturbed Response Team (EDPRT) in the Rochester Police Department. The main speaker on [...]
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Guggenheim Report on “Locking Down the Mentally Ill”
A Guggenheim Special Report by two writers in Wisconsin takes a broad look at the treatment of persons with serious mental illness who behave badly in our nation’s correctional facilities. It pays particular attention to the progress we have made here in New York State as a result of litigation in federal court and [...]
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Times Urges Governor to Replace Juvenile Institutions with Community-based Programs
In an editorial published on Thursday, February 18th, the New York Times called upon Governor to restore funding cut from the executive budget for community-based alternatives and to “listen” to his own juvenile justice task force and replace failing juvenile correctional facilities with community-based alternative programs. Governor Paterson’s Task Force on Transforming Juvenile Justice argued [...]
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