Among other recommendations, the report recommends the state stop incarcerating people with mental health needs, including by enacting the Treatment Not Jails Act as a first step, and properly implement the recently-enacted HALT Solitary Confinement Law’s requirements of restrictions on the use of disciplinary tickets and use of proven alternatives to solitary.
The reports found that 81.7% of people in the disciplinary Residential Mental Health Treatment Units were Black or Latinx people, compared to only 69.5% in non-disciplinary mental health units, 72.3% in all of DOCCS prisons, and only 37% in the state at large .
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