Mental Health Court Offers Alternative to Jail

First aired on WFCR on July 28, 2010.

People with mental illness are jailed at a much higher rate than the general population — but should they be? To separate criminal cases from clinical ones, about 150 special mental health courts have cropped up nationwide in recent years. 

 WFCR’s Karen Brown reports on a new court in Springfield — the second in Massachusetts, after Boston.

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