You mentioned jurisdictions that you felt were doing early intervention well. Can you talk about what those jurisdictions are? Specifically, what types of interventions are working. What do those interventions look like?
Second, I wonder if you could perhaps address the fact that the approach to somebody who commits a minor crime is often that you have to be tough on them; you have to give them a tough sentence and teach them a lesson. What I'm hearing you say is that if you do that with somebody who is facing a mental illness, you're going to create a much more serious problem that has much more additional cost. Eventually that person will get out and will probably commit a more serious crime.
Would that be a fair assessment?