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MA: State cuts endanger jail diversion program

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State cuts endanger jail diversion program By Dan McDonald/Daily News staff The MetroWest Daily News Posted Oct 21, 2008 @ 11:44 PM FRAMINGHAM ? Gov. Deval Patrick's recent budget cuts effectively eliminated an innovative jail diversion program that aimed to help the mentally ill in town. The program partnered the police department with the nonprofit agency Advocates Inc. Lauded as a first-of-its-kind initiative and a model for other departments in the state for the past six years, the program saw $60,000 of its funding, or 50 percent, cut in last week's Beacon Hill belt-tightening, meaning the program will likely end Dec. 31. The original $120,000 state allotment had allowed Advocates to have two medical clinicians respond with police to situations that may involve the mentally ill...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 27, 2008 (boomark / email).