Mental Health Court Would Boost Treatment in San Diego
San Diego officials will meet today to discuss creating a mental health court that can impose a two-year mental health treatment program for petty offenders with mental illnesses. The program would be "far less expensive and far more effective than treating the petty thief in jail, emergency rooms or hospitals," according to an editorial.
- "From a Special Court, Help for the Mentally Ill" (San Diego Union-Tribune, 3/18).
