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Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System in Broome County: A Process Evaluation

Publication year: 2008 | Cataloged on: Jan. 15, 2009

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  • 023489

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  • 2008
  • 41 pages.

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  • Mental Illness and the Criminal Justice System in Broome County: A Process Evaluation

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ANNOTATION: Results are supplied from an assessment of how the criminal justice system of Broome County (New York) treats mentally ill offenders. This report contains these sections: executive summary; introduction; current project; arrest; city and county court, misdemeanors, and felonies; Criminal Procedure Law 730 -- not competent to stand trial due to a mental illness; correctional facility procedures; release and reintegration; and conclusions and recommendations. "There has been a 90% increase in the number of competency exams being ordered over the past three years . . . 37% [of which] were found to be incompetent" (p. ii).
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