Leslie Carpenter

And if somebody has committed a very minor crime, maybe they slept in the wrong place and they got arrested for being homeless and they get taken into jail, right? So the charges like trespassing, allowing for assessments to happen. Okay, why did this happen? oh, the person's mentally ill. Let's divert this person to treatment and drop the charges, right?

And if somebody has committed a very minor crime, maybe they slept in the wrong place and they got arrested for being homeless and they get taken into jail, right? So the charges like trespassing, allowing for assessments to happen. Okay, why did this happen? oh, the person's mentally ill. Let's divert this person to treatment and drop the charges, right?

And that recognition is starting to happen among the legal professions as well as the legal systems. Is it a lot of work still to be done in this case? Absolutely. But they're actually a little bit ahead of us. They're ahead of the medical system in recognizing this actually.

And that recognition is starting to happen among the legal professions as well as the legal systems. Is it a lot of work still to be done in this case? Absolutely. But they're actually a little bit ahead of us. They're ahead of the medical system in recognizing this actually.

And that recognition is starting to happen among the legal professions as well as the legal systems. Is it a lot of work still to be done in this case? Absolutely. But they're actually a little bit ahead of us. They're ahead of the medical system in recognizing this actually.

So again, I'm happy to report to you that there are ways that some of these jurisdictions are trying to act on this. Obviously, sometimes they will refer the person for what's called competency restoration. Unfortunately, we have too few of those beds as well in most of our states. And so people end up waiting to get to that. And competency restoration is not the same thing as treatment.

So again, I'm happy to report to you that there are ways that some of these jurisdictions are trying to act on this. Obviously, sometimes they will refer the person for what's called competency restoration. Unfortunately, we have too few of those beds as well in most of our states. And so people end up waiting to get to that. And competency restoration is not the same thing as treatment.

So again, I'm happy to report to you that there are ways that some of these jurisdictions are trying to act on this. Obviously, sometimes they will refer the person for what's called competency restoration. Unfortunately, we have too few of those beds as well in most of our states. And so people end up waiting to get to that. And competency restoration is not the same thing as treatment.

It is just providing some medication and court classes to get the person well enough to be able to participate in their own defense. Now, what I will tell you is that there are more criminal mental health courts now than there used to be.

It is just providing some medication and court classes to get the person well enough to be able to participate in their own defense. Now, what I will tell you is that there are more criminal mental health courts now than there used to be.

It is just providing some medication and court classes to get the person well enough to be able to participate in their own defense. Now, what I will tell you is that there are more criminal mental health courts now than there used to be.

It would be left up to the jurisdiction to decide whether or not that person who stabbed somebody in a leg would be considered dangerous enough where they felt like they had to handle that through the criminal system and keep the person secure, right?

It would be left up to the jurisdiction to decide whether or not that person who stabbed somebody in a leg would be considered dangerous enough where they felt like they had to handle that through the criminal system and keep the person secure, right?

It would be left up to the jurisdiction to decide whether or not that person who stabbed somebody in a leg would be considered dangerous enough where they felt like they had to handle that through the criminal system and keep the person secure, right?

If it were less than that and the person weren't found to be at risk for hurting somebody else, there's the potential to potentially either get them into a mental health court treatment program or dismiss their charges and get them referred to an AOT or assisted outpatient treatment program.

If it were less than that and the person weren't found to be at risk for hurting somebody else, there's the potential to potentially either get them into a mental health court treatment program or dismiss their charges and get them referred to an AOT or assisted outpatient treatment program.

If it were less than that and the person weren't found to be at risk for hurting somebody else, there's the potential to potentially either get them into a mental health court treatment program or dismiss their charges and get them referred to an AOT or assisted outpatient treatment program.

In any of these cases, I think the basic thing that has to happen is the recognition that it was the untreated illness. that caused that incident to occur in the first place. It was not endemically the person being a bad person.

In any of these cases, I think the basic thing that has to happen is the recognition that it was the untreated illness. that caused that incident to occur in the first place. It was not endemically the person being a bad person.

In any of these cases, I think the basic thing that has to happen is the recognition that it was the untreated illness. that caused that incident to occur in the first place. It was not endemically the person being a bad person.