John Nutting
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This is going to be an apartment for you.
We're going to work with you on a daily basis, get you a job.
Are you interested?
And the young person says,
Hell no.
I don't need to be in a treatment plan.
You need to be in a treatment plan.
They walk out of the court and nothing ever happens.
And of course, that was the urging of the Displaced Rights Center that, you know, hates these type of laws nationwide.
I'm hoping Massachusetts this year is the 49th state that has a statute like this.
We're all kind of looking up at Michigan.
Their law is heaven's law.
What I've read and talked to and seen, they're by far the finest state in the country.
They started with one area of Michigan that has about 400,000 people in it.
And a retired judge is running the program.
And they have over 2,700 people on their Kevin's Law program.
They have room in their hospitals.
They have room in their jail.
Their homeless problem is much less than it used to be because people are on their treatment plans.
Yes.