Media

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• Gothamist: Rikers 'inmates' increasingly need mental health help. New jails won’t fix that, report says

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• Katal Center: Rikers Island and Mental Health: Pathways Toward Community-Based Diversion and Jail Population Reduction

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• FingerLakes 1: Top judges push for more treatment courts

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• Spectrum News 1: New York's top court backs expanding treatment courts
   

• NYDN: To help those with mental illness, close Rikers

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• ​Bloomberg Law: Upstate NY Judge Leads Expansion of ‘Problem-Solving’ Courts

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• The New York Times: Subway Ninja found support through mental health treatment, not incarceration​

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• NYDN: NYC has found a way to balance mental illness and criminal justice, but it’s a path closed to most
   

• NYSBA: Unjust Punishment: The Impact of Incarceration on Mental Health
   

• PoliticsNY: Op-Ed: Treatment Not Jail, A Moral Imperative 
   

• The Journal News: To fight crime, NY must invest in community-based treatment
   

• NYDN: We need treatment instead of jail