The opportunities afforded by court diversion programs could be enhanced with stable community housing. Judge Sol Wachtler writes about an innovative proposal to transform vacancies in closed hospitals into housing, enabling mentally ill defendants to move forward with their court-supervised treatments. [Full Story]
by Sol Wachtler
Memorial Day should be a time of reflection, remembrance, and gratitude to those members of our armed forces who served and died for our country. My Memorial Day reflection went back to 1994 when I was in a mental health prison unit in Rochester, Minnesota. [Full Story]