July 23, 2015 7:15 pm

How Crisis Intervention Could Divert Mentally Ill People From Jail in Fairfax County

In Fairfax County, there is new momentum for directing mentally ill criminal suspects to services rather than jails. “The first weapon for us is speech,” a participant in a model jail diversion program in Texas told News4 Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey for this four-part series.

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