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Cognitive Disability & Criminal Justice: Media Reports, Recommendations, etc.
Governments and People around the WORLD are struggling with the legal, legislative and policy implications of COGNITIVE DISABILITIES that were not recognized and/or understood even a few years ago.
Further, our new found knowledge points to even more. |
International
Transforming the Criminal Justice System: Mental Health and Addictions (Canadian Department of Justice 2017)
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1/2 of Refugees Coming To Germany Suffer from Mental Illness (Press TV 2015)
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Why India Is Facing A Mental Health Crisis (Crux 2018)
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Indonesia: End Shackling of People with Disabilities
(Human Rights Watch - 2016) |
Mental Health in the Arab World (2018)
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NATIONAL -- US & Other states
60 Minutes: Jails are the "New Insane Asylums" (2013)
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Justice Center for the Council of State Governments (2014)
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Mental Illness & Criminal Justice (American Badass Advocates 2017)
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Manhattan Institute: Failing the Severely Mentally Ill (2018)
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Oregon launches a review of criminal justice, behavioral health systems. (2018)
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John Broderick: From New Hampshire Chief Justice to Mental Health Crusader (2019)
Broderick is the Senior Director for Public Affairs for Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H), a nonprofit academic health system that serves close to 1.9 million people in New England. Prior to joining D-H, he served as Dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law and, most notably, as Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court from 2004 to 2010 – the culmination of an accomplished legal career. |
Judge Steven Leifman - Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness (2019)
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How Our Prisons Prey on People with Mental Illness
(Now This News -- Sept. 1, 2019) |
Colorado
Associated Press: Broken Budgets -- States such as Colorado Cut Mental Health Care (2011)
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A Discussion of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Criminal Justice System (2015)
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Youtube video associated with the Denver Post's award-winning series "BreakDown: Mental Health in Colorado (2015)
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Denver settles lawsuit with the Michael Marshall family. Marshall a person with mental illness was killed in the Denver Jail (settlement 2017)
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Too little money, too few beds: Colorado's Mental Health Crisis. Denver Channel 7 (2018)
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Mental Health: A Crisis In Colorado (2019). Preview to Colorado Springs Gazette's series and community conversations on Colorado's Mental Health Crisis.
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