Complete Justice: Ending the Criminalization of Mental Illness

The American criminal justice system is broken - and the problem is being compounded by our mental health crisis. After confronting the failures of these systems first-hand, Judge Steve Leifman realized that for things to improve, a radical change was necessary. In 2000, he created Florida's 11th Judicial Circuit Criminal Mental Health Project, later renamed to the Jail Diversion Project (JDP). Uniting all facets of the criminal justice system from courts to clinics, the program has become ...