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.
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