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8 Sep 2010, 4:45 am
I mean, it's like a little kid who looks at somebody and says in the supermarket, 'You're really old,' or, you know, whataver little kids do.That was part of the testimony of an MHMR expert at the sexual assault trial of Mark Barshaw. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 8:27 am
Jackie Shannon, who is chairwoman of the Board of Trustees of MHMR Services in San Angelo, has a column today in the Standard-Times which opens with the question, "Would you be surprised to learn that the odds of a seriously mentally ill person being in jail or prison in Texas compared with being in a hospital are 7.8 to one? [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 7:13 am
Listed costs were only calculated for participants in the pilot - the Houston PD and the Harris County MHMR authority.If Harris County wants to reduce jail overcrowding, first things first should be to ramp up CCSI-style community supervision for those responsible for the highest rates of jail utilization. [read post]
13 Jun 2010, 5:53 pm
There are programs offered through your local MHMR that usually allow for outpatient treatment. [read post]
3 May 2010, 3:49 am
This court deals with those individuals who have MHMR issues that affect their competency. [read post]
3 Sep 2009, 10:59 am
The Grayson County DA is on the board, as is the executive director of the Permian Basin MHMR from Midland, a district judge from Cameron County and a doctor from Beaumont.For some unexplained reason, Perry only appointed six members to the board, including the chair, but the Sunset bill says it should have seven. [read post]
25 Jul 2009, 1:02 am
But whatever she's able to accomplish won't stop the Harris Jail population from expanding in the near term, as evidenced by the county seeking more contract beds in Jefferson County (Beaumont).From my perspective, the two biggest drivers at the Harris County Jail of both overcrowding and cost are excessive pretrial detention and the evolution of the jail into the county's main mental health treatment facility, both of which will require more than "coordination" by a… [read post]
28 Jun 2009, 12:33 am
The executive director of the Harris County MHMR Authority, Steven Schnee, has an effective op ed in the Houston Chronicle today declaring that the scope of mentally ill people in the Harris County jail foretells a coming crisis:The Harris County Jail is now the largest mental health facility in Texas. [read post]
2 Jun 2009, 11:09 pm
Otherwise, the bill:Requires TYC to keep committing courts informed about youths' progress while they're incarcerated, to create a comprehensive reentry plan for youth upon release, and to provide committing courts a copy of the reentry plan and tell them about youths' behavior inside the facility before they're finally released back into the free world.Requires the Office of Independent Ombudsman to accept pre- and post-publication comments from TYC before issuing any reports,… [read post]
3 Apr 2009, 1:31 am
The committee needs to determine the extent to which the plan might involve TEA, MHMR, CPS, and other programs that directly affect youth. [read post]
11 Mar 2009, 3:14 am
The committee should investigate allegations of abuse and neglect by state workers charged with caring for the children.Relatedly, will the committee hear from MHMR workers who dealt with the kids after they were separated from their mothers and believed the state subjected FLDS kids to abuse? [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 8:03 am
Only Harris County MHMR - to their great credit - took it upon themselves to immediately begin providing competency restoration services. [read post]
28 Jul 2008, 7:00 pm
Some other jurisdictions have created specialized public defender offices to handle these clients.In a related story, the Temple Daily Telegraph reports that Bell County officials are similarly struggling with a lack of mental health services and the resulting pressure on the jail to provide those services ("Mentally ill don't belong in the jailhouse," July 27):A 2003 state budget crunch took more than $100 million out of the community MHMR system. [read post]
12 May 2008, 11:23 pm
UPDATE: From the Salt Lake Tribune, here are links to the letters from MHMR workers:"The floor was literally slick with tears ... [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 1:01 am
So they convinced the Lege to give money that otherwise would have gone to treat mentally ill people in jails for community based programming.Problem is, the Lege gave MHMR centers the money without mandating that they handle competency restoration cases. [read post]
20 Jan 2008, 4:34 am
We'll see what Whitmire and the Lege come up with, though, for 2009.See prior, related Grits posts:Texas underspends on prison healthcareElderly inmates health costs risingThirty percent of Texas inmates former MHMR clientsFaculty blog fears healthcare for TX prisoners gives UTMB a black eyeUTMB should make telemedicine work better at Texas prisons before exporting itI guess if it's possible to have "phone sex" you can have "telepsychiatry"Why Texas per-inmate… [read post]
2 Jan 2008, 2:41 am
A pending lawsuit could force the state to expand the number of state hospital beds available, but in the meantime it's a looming, extant problem.A corollary resolution for community MHMR centers: Develop additional juvenile services to divert mentally ill kids from the juvenile justice system. [read post]
1 Dec 2007, 7:15 am
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9 Oct 2007, 6:12 am
Tuesday, October 9, 2007Voices of Families of the Executed - Part 5Here is the final installment in our series of excerpts from the MVFHR panel of families of the executed at the Third International Women's Peace Conference in Dallas this past July. [read post]
9 Aug 2007, 9:38 am
The county and the MHMR center should perform confidential matches with jail and MHMR records to identify people in both systems and target them for preventive services that might keep them from relapsing and heading back to jail. [read post]
