This week, we are pleased to feature an article from Dr. Reba Bindra, a board-certified psychiatrist with extensive experience treating individuals with serious mental illness in correctional settings. In The Price of a Shopping Cart, Dr. Bindra examines the real-world consequences of delays in implementing SB 820 (which CSAP successfully sponsored last year) and how individuals with serious mental illness can spend months incarcerated for minor offenses while awaiting treatment. Through one patient’s experience, she highlights the human and societal costs of gaps in California’s competency and behavioral health systems.
Read the full article here.