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State officials look into mental health alternatives

   February 20, 2009

Miami Herald reports: State lawmakers and top state officials on Friday morning will tour the psychiatric unit at the Miami-Dade’s Pre-Trial Detention Center to learn about alternatives to jailing mentally ill inmates. On the tour will be Miami-Dade County Judge Steven Leifman, a longtime mental health advocate.

Leifman pushed a bill through the House last spring that aimed to provide community care for mentally ill inmates who are being treated in expensive state psychiatric hospitals. The bill, however, died in the Senate.

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