Houston Landing Series on Deadly Detention

Houston Landing Series on Deadly Detention

That’s a problem. Building more jails isn’t going to solve it. Creating processes that help identify inmates with mental health issues but not the resources to immediately get them into treatment isn’t helping either. The numbers will just get higher. The only thing that will help is getting more resources to the people who need them. But we don’t. I believe the biggest reason we don’t is that we don’t see homeless people with mental health issues who run into legal problems as people who are worth the effort.

Shared Links (weekly) Dec. 11 2022

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Sharing – Texas parents must now sign-off on child abuse, dating violence education

Sharing – Texas parents must now sign-off on child abuse, dating violence education

I’m afraid that I have the same concerns about this change in Texas law. “School districts in Texas are now required to teach students about dating violence, family violence, child abuse and sex trafficking after a new law went into effect in early December. But advocates are concerned that a last-minute change to the law’s…