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4 Nov 2020, 9:15 am by Eric Quitugua
Outside of legal work, he is active in civic affairs in Waco, chairing the city’s plan commission and serving on the board of trustees of the Heart of Texas Region MHMR Center, the local mental health authority for a six-county region. [read post]
24 Feb 2007, 6:11 am
Funding for MHMR, TDCJ and mental health services and the mental health patients impact on county jails. [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]
16 May 2007, 9:20 am
I'd hoped they'd return to that commitment this year and increase forensic bed funding further, but neither the House nor Senate budget includes ANY money for new forensic beds, instead giving crisis care money to community MHMR centers. [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]
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]
6 Jan 2012, 6:14 am by Gritsforbreakfast
.'" In other words, 10 of the 11 kids in isolation at the time of the boys death shouldn't have even been there.Borderline competency: Good question, no easy answersAsks a prosecutor on the DA Association user forum, "What do you do with those VERY low functioning defendants who are already receiving services from MHMR and whose competency is borderline?... [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]
8 Jul 2010, 7:13 am by Gritsforbreakfast
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]
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]
1 Dec 2007, 7:15 am
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