Jerome Miller talked about when they were decarcerating young people in juvenile corrections, one of the issues they didn't do sufficiently was transfer those resources into the community. So there are individuals who have had experience doing this and have learned from those experiences, and I would encourage we look at that. We could start with a decarceration strategy for a number of the individuals with mental health issues. Even if we took half of the resources that are currently being spent to keep them in custody and inject those into the community, we could see huge benefits for not only those individuals but also for many others with similar issues. I think we can do that and should do that.
On November 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.