Pending bill would divert mentally ill from criminal court

A pending bill before the NJ Legislature would divert offenders with mental health issues to programs rather than court.

NJ set to divert mentally ill from criminal justice? | NJ Spotlight News

People who have committed nonviolent offenses and have a diagnosis of a mental disorder would be eligible to enter a statewide mental health ...

S251 - NJ Legislature

Creates “Mental Health Diversion Program” to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system; appropriates $10 million. CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT. As ...

S.3846 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Justice and Mental Health ...

Public Law No: 117-323 (12/27/2022) ... This act expands the allowable use of grants under the Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program. The program ...

NJ A5676 - BillTrack50

Creates Mental Illness Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health ...

Revised Statutes of Missouri, RSMo Section 552.020 - MO.gov

If the court determines that the accused lacks mental fitness to proceed, the criminal proceedings shall be suspended and the court shall commit him or her to ...

New Jersey prison diversion for some defendants with mental illness

A New Jersey bill is now law that will create a statewide program to divert some people with certified mental illnesses who commit certain crimes into a ...

ICYMI - NEW RESOURCE: Judges' Guide to Mental Health Diversion

The bill's language directs legislative commissions to examine the 911 system and how it might integrate into the new 988 system, a suicide and ...

Capitol Report: Mental Health Diversion Bill Signed Into Law - NJSBA

With the signing of this bill, we will ensure that those individuals with serious mental health challenges get the treatment, supervision, and the services that ...

Beyond Criminalization: Toward a Criminologically Informed ...

Recently congress passed and the president signed into law the Mentally Disordered Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (S.1194). ... This legislation is ...

Bill Text: NJ S524 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

Bill Title: Creates Mental Health Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental ...

A Radical New Approach for Mental Health Diversion

Diversion aims to reverse the criminalization of mental illness that has been such a large, and growing, problem in the United States over the ...

SB 215: Diversion: mental disorders. - Digital Democracy - CalMatters

Existing law authorizes a court to grant pretrial diversion, for a period no longer than 2 years, to a defendant suffering from a mental disorder, on an ...

Bill Text - SB-1223 Criminal procedure: mental health diversion.

This bill would change the eligibility criteria to include a diagnosis of a mental disorder instead of the court finding the defendant suffers from a mental ...

New Jersey-2022-S524-Introduced - LegiScan

Creates Mental Illness Diversion Program to divert eligible persons away from criminal justice system and into appropriate case management and mental health ...

The Use of Criminal Charges and Sanctions in Mental Health Courts

The use of mental health courts—criminal courts that hear cases of individuals with mental illness who typically are charged with misdemeanors—is often proposed ...

Expedited diversion to court- ordered treatment

process that would divert some individuals with a serious mental illness from the criminal justice system and into court-ordered mental health treatment.

What does it mean when someone gets in trouble and after court ...

A judge can send a litigant for a mental health examination if at anytime he or she has reason to believe that said litigant is unable to ...

Mental Health Diversion Can Help You Avoid Jail & Get Treatment

The new law now presumes that your properly diagnosed mental health condition impacted the crime unless the prosecutors can prove otherwise. If ...

An Explanation of California's Mental Health Diversion Program

If you or a loved one are struggling with a mental illness and have been charged with a crime, you may be eligible for treatment that ...