Court Quote by E. Fuller Torrey

You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative…

— Cecily McMillan

The criminal justice system is not the right place - or it shouldn't be the place of first resort to provide addiction or mental…

— Ted Wheeler

Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated.

— Thom Tillis

I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness who find…

— Kimberly Guilfoyle

Diagnoses exist to help get people services they need - but there's no such thing as mental illness. We're all mentally ill.

— John Darnielle

Unfortunately, we force people to break the law in order to get any kind of mental health treatment.

— Pete Earley

“Mental illness" is among the most stigmatized of categories.' People are ashamed of being mentally ill. They fear disclosing their condition to their friends…

— Elyn R. Saks

There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to…

— Peter Moskos

I have seen the cycle of a non-violent, mentally ill offender who is arrested repeatedly and put into the system repeatedly-never being treated for…

— Mike DeWine

We must stop criminalizing mental illness. It's a national tragedy and scandal that the L.A. County Jail is the biggest psychiatric facility in the…

— Elyn Saks

Research has shown that the availability of mental health care prior, during, and after imprisonment reduces violent offending drastically.

— Ash Sarkar

Everyone knows someone who is struggling with a mental health issue, whether it's depression, trauma or substance abuse. It affects everyone, so we all…

— Cris Carter