In 1982, my father was a healthy 25 year-old man with his whole life ...
Mental Illness
rssMy Uncle’s Life
On Sunday, my uncle Stanley, my dad’s older brother passed away. In the last ...
Headline – 1 Out of 5 Americans are Actually Monsters!
We were all greatly saddened by the terrible events in Newtown, CT. The headline ...
Silver Linings Playbook – Go see it!
I am very critical of movies. I complain about excessive head shots, lack of ...
Jail Diversion at Arraignment
Relatively few of the diversion programs developed in response to the overrepresentation of people ...
Mental Illness and the Death Penalty
On October 9, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in two death penalty cases in ...
My Friend, Then and Now
When I was in my early 20s, I became very good friends with a ...
A Simulation Modeling Approach for Planning & Costing Jail Diversion Programs for Persons with Mental Illness
Hughes, D., Steadman, H.J., Case, B., Griffin, P.A., & Leff, H. S. (2012). A ...