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Advocates Push Mental Health Diversion for Rikers Inmates
Original: Advocates Push Mental Health Diversion as Thousands at Rikers Need Treatment
Advocates are calling for mental health diversion programs instead of incarceration at Rikers Island, where thousands of detainees reportedly need psychiatric treatment. The push reflects growing criticism that the jail complex has become a de facto mental health facility, and renewed debate over whether treatment-based alternatives would better serve people with serious mental illness caught in the criminal justice system.
Why now: Ongoing crisis conditions at Rikers and pressure to move people with mental illness out of jail into treatment have kept the issue in public debate.
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