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How to Help: When a Person with Mental Illness is Arrested
This guide, co-written by NAMI New York State and the Urban Justice Center, is designed to help New Yorkers with mental illness and others navigate the criminal justice system. |
Beyond Punishment
NAMI Maryland's guide to navigating the criminal justice system. The information in this book was written specifically for Maryland residents, but may be helpful for others as well. |
Decriminalizing Mental Illness: Background and Recommendations
The NAMI National Board of Directors has released a report calling for more jail diversion, improved services for people at risk of criminal justice involvement, and better collaboration between criminal justice and mental health professionals. |
Decriminalizing Mental Illness: Background and Recommendations: An Executive Summary
Read the Executive Summary of the NAMI National Board's new report on criminalization of mental illness. |
A Guide to Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System
This guide offers consumers and family members basic information about how to navigate the criminal justice system. |
Mental Health Courts Reauthorization
On April 29, 2004 the Senate Judiciary Committee reported out of Committee S. 2107, a bill to reauthorize through 2009 federal funding of Mental Health Courts. |
Survey Results: Community Leaders Are First to See Crisis
In a Peter D. Hart Research survey conducted for NAMI, one-third (33%) of those who hold public, private, and non-profit leadership positions in our local communities nationwide identify mental health treatment and services as among one of the two most over-burdened community resources, compared with only14% of the general public. |
Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project
The Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project is an unprecedented, national effort coordinated by the Council of State Governments (CSG) to help local, state, and federal policymakers and criminal justice and mental health professionals improve the response to people with mental illness who become involved in, or are at risk of involvement in, the criminal justice system. |
NAMI Calls for Action Following Report on Brutal Mistreatment of U.S. Prisoners With Mental Illnesses
NAMI, the Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness, is calling for federal and state legislative action in conjunction with the release of a report by Human Rights Watch documenting mistreatment and neglect of individuals with mental illnesses in U.S. prisons. |
The Federal Mental Health Courts Program
Congress passed America's Law Enforcement and Mental Health Project (P.L. 106-515) in 2000 in order to begin assisting states and communities across the nation in putting in place innovative approaches to diverting offenders into treatment programs and easing the growing burden on criminal justice and corrections systems. This new law authorizes the Justice Department to fund up to 100 such courts. |
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