- Sponsored by Alan "Al" Franken, a Democratic Senator from Minnesota
- Sponsored by the House Committee on the Judiciary and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- 34% chance of being passed
- Goals:
- For people who work with mental health patients and criminal justice workers to understand the way people with mental illnesses go through the criminal justice system
- Improve resources to help these people within the system and keep them from relapsing into a life of crime after they are released
- Create grants for programs that help veterans, including those that have been incarcerated, either by providing rehabilitation, therapy or other programs. Priority to those that connect between veterans, substance abuse, criminal justice and mental health
- other goals intended to help the mentally ill, veterans, substance abusers and criminals both past and present
Alan "Al" Franken
- only missed 3 votes out of 657 votes
- ranked as being very Progressive
- scored poorly on working towards bipartisan goals
- serving Jul 7, 2009- Jan 3, 2021
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