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California’s Mentally Ill Inmate Population Keeps Growing and State Money Isn’t Enough to Meet Need, Lawmaker Says (2018)
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Article emphasizes importance of new legislation that reevaluates the competency system in an effort to help create local mental health programs that divert inmates away from the criminal justice system and into treatment.
Jazmine Ulloa covers state politics and policy for the Los Angeles Times
Keywords: Mental illness, mental health, overcrowding, hospitals, state budget, community corrections, Jim Beall, California, legislation