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Judiciary highlights recovery, jobs and gun-violence initiatives; mental-health diversion pilots set to expand
Summary
Acting Administrative Director Michael Blee told senators the judiciary’s recovery court, job-placement programs and gun-violence initiative have measurable success and described an attorney-general-led mental-health diversion program that is moving into pilot selection and initial funding.
Michael Blee told the Senate panel the judiciary’s recovery court and related programs produce strong outcomes and that a newly enacted mental-health diversion law is entering its pilot phase.
Blee said recovery court graduates have substantially lower reincarceration rates: while about 25 percent of people released from prison return within three years, he said the reincarceration rate for recovery court graduates is “just 2 percent.” He described the program as connecting participants to treatment, education and employment and noted job-placement partnerships in vicinages such as…
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