In The News on FRONTLINE: “Miami’s Model for Defendants With Severe Mental Illness” https://tinyurl.com/3hck3mpa
Read or listen to FRONTLINE’s story, in partnership with WFAE 90.7, about the work of Judge Andrea Wolfson, Judge Steve Leifman, and Miami-Dade Courts highly successful Criminal Mental Health Project, which serves as a model court for other jurisdictions nationwide as well as in other countries.
The mission of the program: to offer court-supervised treatment and services for people with severe mental illnesses instead of incarceration, resulting in reduced crime and successful mental health recoveries.