Legislators, law enforcement, and mental health advocates including NAMI have been concerned about the number of persons with mental illness who end up in our jails an prisons. On this episode, Jeff Fladen, NAMI Tennessee Executive Director looks at corrections reform and pre-arrest diversion. NAMI Tennessee is also part of a collaboration that successfully advocated for the State of Tennessee to approve $15 million for pre-arrest diversion. Several projects are now underway to begin to address this issue.
