In St. Petersburg, Melanie Bevan Didn't Skip a Beat in Rising to Assistant …
In St. Petersburg, Melanie Bevan didn't skip a beat in rising to assistant …
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Women made up less than 12 percent of the staff in 1990, according to police statistics. They account for 16.5 percent of the force today. Bevan recalls one night when a … In the early 2000s, Bevan started the agency's street crimes unit, a squad of …
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Keeping Parolees Out of Prison
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Encouraged by the federal Second Chance Act of 2008, which aims to promote correctional reform, several states have cut recidivism by giving newly released inmates access to drug treatment or mental health care, focusing parole supervision on the …
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Kaufman: Mental health, drug abuse cuts are hurting community
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The statistics point to the fact that we are not adequately serving this population in need. In 2011, 21.6 million persons aged 12 or older needed treatment for an illicit drug or alcohol use problem. Of these, 2.3 million received treatment at a …
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64 mentally ill die at hands of police this year
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“It is a shame that a bullet is what our mental health safety net has become,” said Louis Josephson, chief executive officer of Riverbend Community Mental Health Inc. in Concord, N.H., which offers outpatient and residential programs. The failures of …
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