Alternative courts, mental health care could lower prison, jail popultions
Alternative courts, mental health care could lower prison, jail popultions - "It always goes back to the same thing," said Washington County Sheriff Tim Helder. "We hook 'em, we book 'em, we try them, we sentence them, we send them to prison, they do whatever time they're gonna do. Then, you give them a $50 or $100 check and a bus ticke