Category: Criminal Justice
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Forensic Mental Health: A Proposed Solution
With drive by and wave promises, politicians have done little to address the problem of how the mentally ill and the homeless end up recycling through jails and our criminal justice system. The best solution is an immediate structure providing resources. It has been more than a decade when then-current LA sheriff Lee Baca, in…
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Criminal Justice: Five Steps to Depolarize American Society
Discussing 5 Steps To Depolarize American Society With San Diego Deputy Public Defender Lucas Hirsty The recent bill and rare accomplishment passed by Congress, called the First Step Act, reduces sentencing and allows a fairer and balanced approach to the immense problems in our criminal justice system Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4Part…