Judges and Judiciary,
Government,
Criminal
Jul. 27, 2018
In California, all courts are mental health courts
A new law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that effectively turns all the superior courts in the state into mental health courts, and it is bound to be controversial.
Jeffrey A. Aaron
Public Defender
Mendocino County Public Defender's Office
3801 University Ave Ste 700
Riverside , CA 92501
Phone: (951) 276-6346
Fax: (951) 276-6368
Email: Jeffrey_Aaron@fd.org
Rutgers Univ SOL; Camden NJ
Jeffrey is a certified specialist in criminal law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
In 2016, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation noted that 30 percent of all inmates incarcerated in California receive treatment for some kind of "serious mental health disorder." This doubled the amount who were treated for such conditions fifteen years earlier in 2001. In recent years, the increasing numbers of mentally ill prisoners in the Federal Bureau of Prisons has negatively impacted conditions for mentally ill inmates. In its 2017 report, the Offic...
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