Juvenile Detention Centers: Are They Warehousing Children with Mental Illness

Wednesday, July 7, 2004
10:00 AM

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Witnesses

Panel 1

• The Honorable Henry A. Waxman [view testimony]
  U.S. House of Representatives

Panel 2

• Carol Carothers [view testimony]
  Executive Director
  National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Maine
• Tammy Seltzer [view testimony]
  Staff Attorney
  Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Leonard Dixon [view testimony]
  Executive Director
  Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility
• The Honorable Ernestine S. Gray [view testimony]
  Chief Judge
  Orleans Parish Juvenile Court
• Kenneth J. Martinez, PSY. D. [view testimony]
  Director, Children’s Behavioral Health
  Department of Children, Youth and Families