Trump Budget Would Mean Jail for Many Requiring Mental Health Care [CapitalAndMaine.com]

Samantha Sangenito 6/21/174:00 AM

President Donald Trump is trying to keep his promise to end the “American carnage” of crime and drugs. His proposed budget would allocate hundreds of millions of dollars to swelling the ranks of federal prosecutors, who Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered last month to pursue the most severe penalties possible.

But that’s not where the “law and order” ends.

By cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mental health care and substance abuse treatment, the budget would also send more people to jail who don’t belong there.

[For more of this story, written by David Cohen, go to https://capitalandmain.com/tru...tal-health-care-0619]

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