The head of the California Senate is proposing the state spend $50 million on programs to help keep mentally ill criminals from re-offending. Democrat Darrell Steinberg is calling for the Legislature to spend some of the state's recent windfall to bring back a program that died with budget cuts. Under Steinberg's proposal, the state would pay counties to fund mental health courts, substance abuse treatment and employment training programs.
Proposal Would Reinstate Programs to Keep Mentally Ill Out of Jail
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