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At the Hands of Police
Justice, Policy & Culture ChangeCook County Illinois’s public defender and Equitas National Advisor Amy Campanelli describes her work providing “a voice for the voiceless.” Adapted from Progressive.org Public defenders serve as a voice for people in these commun...
LA County Wants To Tear Down A Jail To Help Its Mentally Ill Inmates
Corrections, Health CareThere’s general agreement that the aging Men’s Central Jail in downtown L.A. needs to be torn down. The question is: what should replace the 1963 concrete fortress? On Tuesday, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors is set to provide an a...
A new mental health jail vs. community mental health treatment
Corrections, Health Care, In the NewsExcerpt from the piece by psychiatrist Dr. Terry Kupers, Equitas National Advisor. The problems with mistreatment of inmates with mental illness at Los Angeles County Jail, and the decision by the Board of Supervisors that Men’s Centra...
Help can’t wait for imprisoned mentally ill
Corrections, Justice, Policy & Culture ChangeFrom Equitas National Advisor Cheryl Roberts with The Greenburger Center. From start to finish, the criminal justice system is no place to make treatment and housing decisions about the vast majority of people with serious mental illness...
US Needs Bail Reform to Protect Constitutional Rights & Public Safety
Justice, Public Safety, ReentryBy Equitas National Advisor Marc Levin. Excerpted from Real Clear Policy. Former Chief Justice William Rehnquist stated: “In our society, liberty is the norm, and detention prior to trial or without trial is the carefully limited excep...
Equitas Progress Report: Is Colorado Promoting Mental Health and Freedom over Punishment and Incarceration?
Childhood, Corrections, Data, Education, Employment, Health Care, Housing, Justice, Policy & Culture Change, Public Safety, ReentryWebinar recorded by CBHC on behalf of Colorado’s MHDCJS Legislative Task Force. View the webinar on the CBHC website....
Why today’s criminal justice reform efforts won’t end mass incarceration
Corrections, Policy & Culture Change, Public SafetyBy John Pfaff Ours is a massive experiment in punitive social control that imposes disproportionate costs on people of color and those who are poor—and one that is nearly impossible to justify even remotely, at least on public safety g...
To Get Mental Health Help For A Child, Desperate Parents Relinquish Custody
Childhood, Health Care, Policy & Culture ChangeTwo-thirds of states don’t keep track of how many families give up custody to help the child get mental health services. But a study by the Government Accountability Office found that back in 2001, more than 12,000 families in 19 state...
Why I ended the horror of long-term solitary in Colorado’s prisons
Corrections, In the NewsWhy I Ended the Horror of Long-Term Solitary in Colorado’s Prisons By Rick Raemisch, Colorado Department of Corrections Director and Equitas National Advisor In Colorado, long-term solitary confinement used to be a tool that was regul...
Giving Patients a Voice in Their Mental Health Care Before They’re Too Ill to Have a Say
Health CareIncreasingly, patients, advocates and doctors believe psychiatric advance directives (called PADs), a legal document declaring what treatment a patient does and doesn’t want, could help transform the mental health system by allowing pa...