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Let me start by giving you a statistic: “For the year ending March 2020, Black children made up thirty five percent of all children remanded to

With involuntary commitment, where should Maine draw the line? A bill before the Legislature raises tough questions about forcing people into inpatient mental health treatment. Share Some bills wind their way through the legislative process with nary a raised eyebrow. Others leave lawmakers in a moral quandary, caught between one side that says do something and another that says don’t. L.D. 785 is one of those others. It’s titled “An Act to Change the Standard for Assessing Risk of Serious Harm.” On paper, it amounts to a slight tweak in existing state law that governs who can be inv...

Potential failures in keeping public safe identified by inspectors reporting on Probation Board The Probation Board Northern ireland 10 December, 2020 01:00 CJI chief inspector Jacqui Durkin said `the quality of case supervision was mixed'. Picture by Aaron McCracken/PA Wire POOR risk management planning of offenders and potential failures keeping the public safe have been identified by inspectors reporting on the Probation Board's (PBNI) work. The Criminal Justice Inspectorate (CJI) and HM Inspectorate of Probation in England and Wales carried out detailed cas...