Mental Health Voters From behind bars to the ballot box: Colorado's groundbreaking inmate voting initiative A new law establishes in-person polling places in detention centers, empowering eligible incarcerated voters to participate in democracy.
Mental Health Voters Should lifers be able to vote? One argues yes A writer serving a life sentence explains the ways restoring voting rights to those incarcerated without parole would aid in rehabilitation and provide valuable perspectives on criminal justice reform.
Incarceration Neighbors with mental illness languish indefinitely in jails before trial Despite a deadline and consent decree, Colorado illegally detains defendants judged incompetent, preventing them from receiving treatment or facing trial
Incarceration Stop processing mentally ill people through the legal system The growing number of Americans with serious mental illness is challenging law enforcement, courts and jails, which have become de facto psychiatric wards
Incarceration How do we decrease the number of jail suicides and does the public care enough to act? Jail suicides have been an overlooked national crisis for years. America needs to start learning from them in order to address the underlying problems that are causing so much needless death.
Incarceration Activists demand mental healthcare for the incarcerated at El Paso County Jail Twelve people have died this year while in custody at the El Paso County Jail. Relatives and activists want answers.
