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Cognitive Disability & Criminal Justice:  Media Reports, Recommendations, etc.

Governments and People around the WORLD are struggling with the legal, legislative and policy implications of COGNITIVE DISABILITIES that were not recognized and/or understood even a few years ago.

Further, our new found knowledge points to even more.

International 

"Prisoners Suffer High Rate of Brain Injury."  ABC News Australia (2011)
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the Australian Government and the Council of Australian Governments, through the Community and Disability Services Ministers’ Conference … [should] engage in an urgent program of legislative and policy reform alongside service development to ensure that offenders with an ABI have access to programs of diversion and offender rehabilitation “on an equal basis with others.”

Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer, Brain Injury Australia
Transforming the Criminal Justice System: Mental Health and Addictions (Canadian Department of Justice 2017)
1/2 of Refugees Coming To Germany Suffer from Mental Illness (Press TV 2015)
Why India Is Facing A Mental Health Crisis (Crux 2018)
Indonesia:  End Shackling of People with Disabilities
(Human Rights Watch - 2016)
Mental Health in the Arab World (2018)

NATIONAL -- US & Other states

60 Minutes:  Jails are the "New Insane Asylums" (2013)
Justice Center for the Council of State Governments (2014)
Mental Illness & Criminal Justice (American Badass Advocates 2017)
Manhattan Institute:  Failing the Severely Mentally Ill (2018)
Oregon launches a review of criminal justice, behavioral health systems. (2018)
John Broderick: From New Hampshire Chief Justice to Mental Health Crusader (2019)

Broderick is the Senior Director for Public Affairs for Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H), a nonprofit academic health system that serves close to 1.9 million people in New England. Prior to joining D-H, he served as Dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law and, most notably, as Chief Justice of the NH Supreme Court from 2004 to 2010 – the culmination of an accomplished legal career. 
Judge Steven Leifman - Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness (2019)
How Our Prisons Prey on People with Mental Illness
(Now This News -- Sept. 1, 2019)

Colorado

Associated Press:  Broken Budgets  -- States such as Colorado Cut Mental Health Care (2011)
A Discussion of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Criminal Justice System (2015)
Youtube video associated with the Denver Post's award-winning series "BreakDown:  Mental Health in Colorado (2015)
Denver settles lawsuit with the Michael Marshall family.  Marshall a person with mental illness was killed in the Denver Jail (settlement 2017)
Too little money, too few beds:  Colorado's Mental Health Crisis.  Denver Channel 7 (2018)
Mental Health:  A Crisis In Colorado (2019).  Preview to  Colorado Springs Gazette's series and community conversations on Colorado's Mental Health Crisis.