Conversations from Studio B on the topic of:   Law enforcement: Jail diversion, crisis intervention training, courts, and prison systems   Click on the Topic links below to listen to a program   or return to the archive list to explore a different topic

Topic	Interviewee	Interviewee info	Air date
Efforts to Promote Special Docket Courts for Offenders with Brain Disorders (most recently Veterans Court for brain wounded soldiers)	Evelyn Lundberg Stratton	Ohio Supreme Court Justice	June 24, 2012
Ohio's new mental health asylums: Its jails and prisons	Jeremy Tolson	Warden of the Southeast Ohio Regional Jail and member of the Southeast Ohio Jail Diversion Advisory board	Mar 30, 2011
TAC's report: More Mentally Ill Persons are in Prisons than in Hospitals:  A Survey of the States	Jim Pavle	Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center (Arlington, VA)	Nov 28, 2010
Veterans' Court as a way of helping PTSD veterans in trouble with the law   See also a related NBC News Segment :   for Windows Media Player (wmv)  for Quick Time (mp4)	Judge Robert Russell	Member of the pioneering Buffalo Veterans' Treatment Court	May 23, 2010
The mentally ill in our country's prisons	Lee Baca	Sheriff, Los Angeles County	Oct 26, 2008
The birth and current status of Crisis Intervention Training (CIT)	Major Sam Cochran	Coordinator, Memphis Police Services Crisis Intervention Team	Sep 28, 2008
Mental illness: Crime and punishment	Dr. Faye Sultan	Forensic Psychologist and Novelist	Dec 9, 2007
Dual career experience of a police officer and psychologist	David Malawista	Police officer and psychologist in Athens	Jul 22, 2007
Mental health and SAMI courts	Judge William Grim and Sherri Crock	Athens County Municipal Court Judge (Grim) and TCMHS SAMI/Mental Health Court Coordinator (Crock)	Apr 26, 2006
Jail Diversion, Crisis Intervention Training, and SAMI courts	Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Stratton	The mother of a daughter with a mental illness, Judge Stratton has made pioneering efforts to have Ohio's Criminal Justice System accommodate itself to the special needs of the mentally ill. Not only has she promoted "Jail Diversion" Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) for law enforcement officers, but she has also been active in encouraging communities all over the state to set up Mental Health Courts and Substance Abuse and Mental Illness (SAMI) Courts. Athens, now has both types of courts as well as yearly CIT courses for police.	Mar 29, 2006
Training police for CIT/Jail Diversion	David Malawista, and Diane Pfaff	Police officer and psychologist (Malawista) and social worker and planner for alcohol, drug addiction and mental health board for Athens, Hocking, and Vinton Counties	Oct 27, 2004