The Georgia Sheriff’s Association reports that right now, over 400 inmates are being transported throughout the South Georgia region to state-run mental health facilities.
ALBANY, Ga. - Isolated, confined and shut off from the rest of the world. That’s how inmates spend their days incarcerated and, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2 in 5 adults experience that while battling mental health illnesses.
“It is a disgrace in Georgia that the number-one place for mental health and substance abuse treatment are our jails and prisons. That’s not acceptable,” Jeff Breedlove, chief of policy at Georgia Council for Recovery, said.“We’re down here in the far southwest corner, the forgotten part of the state and there’s just nothing here. We have to drive lots of miles transporting the mental patients,” said Seminole County Sheriff Heath Elliott.
“Now, if a person is determined to be incompetent but not insane, they can be restored to competency by mental health treatment and then later held responsible for whatever charges they may face,” Edwards said. The Dougherty County Mental Health Court consists of two parts: an accountability court, and a competency court.
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