Very interesting
enrico

--- nsoysalmd <nsoysalmd@...> wrote:

> Special courts that sentence people with mental
> illnesses who are
> convicted of misdemeanors and low-level felonies to
> treatment instead
> of jail have the potential to save taxpayers money,
> according to a RAND
> Corporation study conducted for the Council of State
> Governments
> Justice Center.
>
> "Justice, Treatment, and Cost: An Evaluation of the
> Fiscal Impact of
> Allegheny County Mental Health Court," was funded by
> the Pennsylvania
> Department of Public Welfare and the Staunton Farm
> Foundation. The
> study issued on Thursday by RAND, a nonprofit
> research organization, is
> the first to look at the fiscal impact of a mental
> health court
> anywhere in the United States.
>
> http://www.rand.org/news/press.07/03.01.html
>
>
>
>




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