Mental Health
February 2, 2012
Realignment presents challenges in housing, mental health treatment
After four months of California’s realignment program, jail overcrowding, homelessness and inadequate mental health reporting have overburdened local agencies now responsible for prisoners shifted from state to local institutions.
County parole agents and mental health workers have had to deal with a growing number of state prison returnees who have mental health issues, which county officials say were poorly described in their state prison information packets that preceded release...
LINK - PE.com (The Press-Enterprise)
January 10, 2012
Prisoner realignment and mental illness
A deeper look into prison realignment. County mental health and substance abuse programs now have to deal with a new breed of parolee released into our area.
More aggressive, and less predictable, and now the county is trying to meet the challenge.
Thanks to prison realignment our county mental health office is getting a lot of new patient...
LINK - KGET.com
