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Information on Inmates with Serious Mental Illness and Strategies to Reduce Recidivism- Government Accountability Office
About two-thirds of inmates with a serious mental illness in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) were incarcerated for four types of offenses—drug (23 percent), sex offenses (18 percent), weapons and explosives…

TEAM Court Keeps the Mentally Ill Out of Jail – The Pensacola News Journal
Escambia County's TEAM—or Teaching, Education, Accountability and Motivation—Court is a diversion program that provides specialized proceedings for criminal defendants whose mental health was a factor in the criminal offense that they…