People with serious mental illness are being failed by WA’s criminal justice system, says Greens (WA) Spokesperson for Mental Health Alison Xamon.
“They are being failed because successive State governments have not invested in the necessary facilities and services and in much-needed law reform,” Ms Xamon said. “People with serious mental illness are among the most vulnerable people in our community.
“In 2011, the Government’s own Mental Health Commission noted the lack of services available, saying:
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The threat of mandatory time or being kept indefinitely in jail continues to hang over the heads of the State’s mentally impaired accused people following the Barnett/Grylls Government’s failure to undertake desperately needed law reform during its term of government.