Arizona’s Glendale Mental Health Court Aims To Send Defendants To Treatment, Not Prison

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Last month, the city of Glendale opened a new court specially designed for the mentally ill. Advocates say it's a critical issue; according to an analysis of government data by the Treatment Advocacy Center, mentally ill people in Arizona are nearly ten times more likely to be in the criminal justice system than in hospitals. The whole idea behind Glendale's Mental Health Court is to keep defendants stable and out of prison. Mentally ill people whose treatment's been handled by the state behavioral health agency get routed in when they're . . .