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Government

May 9, 2013

Legislator says mental health reform would address prison overcrowding

Expanding California's mental health care resources could go a long way toward tackling the state's prison overcrowding problem, according to a plan released Tuesday by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg

By Hamed Aleaziz
Daily Journal Staff Writer

Expanding California's mental health care resources could go a long way toward tackling the state's prison overcrowding problem, according to a plan released Tuesday by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento.

The plan suggests 3,500 parolees be added to a existing pilot program to treat mentally ill parolees and calls for the addition of 2,000 crisis treatment beds and 25 "rapid response" crisis support tea...

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