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CIT in Action Issue #2
11/14/2005
Read the CIT in Action Issue #2 from the NAMI CIT Technical Assistance Resource Center. Included in this issue are articles on Community CIT initiatives, CIT is International, Second Chance Act of 2005 Introduced and more.

Criminalization Fact Sheet

NAMI believes that persons who have committed offenses due to states of mind or behavior caused by a brain disorder require treatment, not punishment. NAMI believes that a prison or jail is never an optimal therapeutic setting.



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