State wanted to get the managed care model it was using in metropolitan areas and implement it statewide in an effort to save money.
McLennan County carried on in a group with 5 other Central Texas counties.
Idea was to create pecuniary incentives for health care providers within a region to work gether to develop projects to stabilize health while decreasing Medicaid expenditures. It should allow people charged with specific crimes to get charges dropped or sentences lowered by participating in an intensive treatment program. Another initiative will establish a mental health court. Although, idea has been to get them to comply with considered care so they may stay good and out of trouble with law, Thomas said. AVID Jail Project meets regularly with King administrations County Jail and SCORE to establish collaborative working relationships and resolve mental health related problems at lowest intervention level manageable.
Tallon Satiacum was denied medication he needed, punished time after time for behavior associated with symptoms of mental illness, while in jail.
Tallon’s in depth story is in Rooted in Rights blog.
When Inmates Amplifying Voices with Disabilities Jail Project brought this issue to jail, they responded in a surprising way.
Practice more about Ricardo’s story through Rooted in Rights story page. Jail responded by punishing him, rather than addressing his mental health needs, when Ricardo Rodriguez attempted to harm himself while incarcerated. Basically, most communal members will not enter a jail and will have no AVID Jail Project likewise produces videos and similar media as part of an ongoing effort to give jail inmates with mental illness an opportunity to tell their own stories in their own words. AVID Jail Project hopes that the images and stories we share will bring attention to mental cr health in our criminal justice system and will humanize a significant issue that is all that raised quite a few more questions. Why didn’t he get nice treatment at the jail? Thus South Correctional Entity, since late 2015 the project has used DRW’s ‘federallymandated’ access authority to monitor while King County Jail.
