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Tom Blakey
"When people with mental illnesses are arrested for trespassing, shoplifting and other nonviolent offenses in Cleveland County, they no longer will be automatically sentenced to prison or probation, where their illness likely would go untreated. Instead — if they meet the eligibility criteria — they can opt for a court specifically designed to give them treatment, supervision and support. The program is the Cleveland County Anna McBride Mental Health Court — part of a growing national trend to divert nonviolent offenders with mental health problems from jail into treatment."
