Federal Legislation

Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act of 2003

The purpose of the law is to promote public safety and community health by facilitating collaboration among the criminal justice, juvenile justice, mental health treatment, and substance abuse systems in diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal and juvenile justice systems and in treating such individuals within those systems. The law establishes two discretionary grant programs: planning grants ($75,000 maximum award) and implementation grants. The implementation grants are nonrenewable and may extend over as much as five years

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