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| Arkansas prisons proposals endorsed, advanced |
| By arkansasonline.com- Andy Davis |
| Published: 12/13/2016 |
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A task force, looking to slow the growth of the state's inmate population, on Monday recommended establishing crisis units for offenders with mental illnesses, providing more training for law enforcement on helping such offenders, and uploading offender assessments into a statewide database. The recommendations were unanimously approved by the task force in a voice vote as part of the annual report of the Behavioral Health Treatment Access Task Force, which was created by the Legislature last year to investigate how to ensure mentally ill offenders receive appropriate treatment. The recommendations will now go the Legislature for approval. "It goes without saying that if you've committed a violent crime, you're going to be incarcerated, but there are a lot of people who are just there because there's no other place for them to be," Rep. Clarke Tucker, D-Little Rock and a chairman of the task force, said after the meeting. Read More. |
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