In 2015, more than half of the people arrested by Honolulu police were mentally ill. Close to half were homeless, according to police department statistics. Many of them were arrested for low-level, nonviolent offenses. And because of drug addiction or mental illness, they often don’t respond to the punishment of jail time, leading to high […]
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