Like many states in the US, California virtually abandoned the mentally ill several decades ago.
In 2005, a mentally ill women killed her nine-year-old daughter and then took her own life.
On the other hand, the prisons are not designed to treat the mentally ill.
It is also cheaper to house the mentally ill behind bars than in a state hospital.
He had to be both parents a lot as my mother was mentally ill.
On Saturday officers went to a group home for the mentally ill where Brian Claunch lived.
Often the accommodations for the mentally ill are the least costly of the two, says Heffron.
Plus the seriously mentally ill are more likely to be the victims of violence than perpetrators.
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Have personnel trained to respond and intervene, possibly to incarcerate the dangerously mentally ill.
His neighbours are mostly other sex offenders and mentally ill folk who talk to themselves.
There is a perverse economic logic in the mentally ill ending up in prison, rather than hospitals.
That's why I support comprehensive background checks, so criminals and the dangerously mentally ill can't buy guns.
Some 40% of cigarettes are sold to the mentally ill, and nine out of ten schizophrenics smoke.
Ruth Lesirge, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said friendship was vital for the mentally ill.
Matejkowski and his co-authors reported that 16% of state prisoners who had perpetrated murders were mentally ill.
He said that registry will be used in cross-referencing data bases for the mentally ill and criminals.
In a period characterised as much by social Darwinism as social responsibility, no provision was made for the mentally ill.
Train teachers, cops and others likely to encounter the dangerously mentally ill in what to watch for.
Jaffe about changes in mental health law that could protect the public from the violent mentally ill.
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The street sleepers include, among others, young people leaving care, ex-prisoners, drug users and the mentally ill.
If so, this absolutely must be handled with integrity and with impeccable safeguards for the mentally ill.
Because we would not blink, he would throw kids, seniors, and the mentally ill out into the street.
Instead, the mentally ill often have little access to treatment, and many have ended up on the streets.
He called for greater support for the mentally ill and for felons who may have been wrongly convicted.
The families of mentally ill people who have died after encountering the police are being invited to contribute.
The fact that criminals, terrorists and other mentally ill people have access to guns is a national crisis.
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The tribunal will hear allegations the Causeway, despite being unregistered, took in mentally ill patients between 2008 and 2010.
During cross-examination by Michael Fitton QC, prosecuting, Dr Rogers said he did not believe Farrow to be mentally ill.
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Kelly added there was no evidence Villalobos is mentally ill or was intoxicated.
Drawing on his earlier training, McLelland took on a lot of court-appointed work for mentally ill defendants, Burns said.
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