Urban Justice Center's "Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities Legal Advocacy Project" (PPDLAP) scheduled to begin July, 2008

Save the date: 5/14/08 - National Academy for State Health Policy web-based seminar "Creative Approaches to Using Medicaid in Juvenile Justice Systems"

New resource available: Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Justice System

CSG Justice Center Releases New Edition of Essential Elements of a Mental Health Court

Save the date: 6/23/08 - 6/25/08 Indiana Department of Correction National Mental Health Conference "Unlock the Mystery: Managing Mental Health from Corrections to Community," Indianapolis, IN

U.S. House passes the Second Chance Act on prisoner reentry

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ABC News Local (NY) - Exclusive: Brooklyn's mental health court
5/9/08 - "They receive little or no treatment and often, when released, commit more serious crimes. But a change is taking place in the court system, helping the mentally ill instead of incarcerating them."

NPR - Court Aims to Help Vets with Legal Troubles
4/29/08 - "Judge Robert Russell and his staff started a docket for veterans in January when they realized increasing numbers of them were showing up in court."

The Denver Post (CO) - Better to aid mentally ill outside of jail, report says
4/19/08 - "One of every five inmates jailed in the seven- county Denver metro area has a serious mental illness, and housing them takes a $34.4 million annual bite out of the counties' tight budgets, according to a new report by a Metro Area County Commissioners' task force."

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