Daviess Co. among 10 other Kentucky counties chosen for behavioral pilot program

DAVIESS CO., Ky. (WFIE) – A brand new behavioral pilot program is coming to pick Kentucky counties. Officers from the Administrative Workplace of the Courts and Division for Behavioral Well being introduced this system this week.

Daviess County is one among 11 counties that had been chosen to take part in this system. This system will place folks charged with crimes into behavioral well being therapy as a substitute of behind bars.

Lisa Payne Jones, Chief Circuit Choose of Daviess County, says when Senate Invoice 90 was handed by the legislature this summer season, some discoveries had been made.

Jones says through the legislative course of officers realized that a variety of the people who find themselves incarcerated in Kentucky have some kind of psychological sickness. Jones says some people that commit against the law are higher off receiving therapy in public slightly than being incarcerated due to that reality.

”The place oftentimes the psychological sickness can escalate as a result of it’s not getting handled and due to the high-stress setting of the jail system, but in addition they’re perhaps not receiving drugs not attending appointments,” mentioned Jones.

Officers say if a person in this system is profitable, they’ll have the chance to have their prison prices dismissed. Jones says a begin date just isn’t but decided.

Rachel Pate, Psychological Well being Division Director for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, says Daviess County is aware of taking a person’s psychological state into consideration and they’re glad they had been chosen to be part of the pilot program.

“It’s all the time good that you’re checked out as a pilot county,” mentioned Pate. “That they see the success that you simply’re having in your different various applications or your court docket system, however as a result of we work so shut collectively we wish to guarantee that it’s efficient.”

Pate says she’s looking forward to what this might imply for the county and the state.

Click on right here to learn extra about Senate Invoice 90.

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