Are treated outside of jails if they are charged with crimes, or can receive therapeutic rather than punitive treatment if they are imprisoned.
The project received a four-year commitment of $130 million from De Blasio’s council. In light of the city’s recidivism problem, the City Council, headed by Democratic.
Mayor Eric Adams, demanded that $8.9 million be added to the city’s 2025 fiscal year budget for mental health courts in order to keep the prisons from turning into mental asylums.
Early in March, Adams and NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper voiced their displeasure with recidivist crimes in the city’s subway system.
