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Attention: Janet Lyness

Attention Janet Lyness:(10.7.1)     NAMI believes that persons who have committed offenses due to states of mind or behavior caused by a serious mental illness do not belong in penal or correctional institutions.  Such persons require treatment, not punishment.  A prison or jail is never an optimal therapeutic setting.(10.7.2)     NAMI support  s a variety of approaches to diverting individuals from unnecessary incarceration into appropriate treatment, including pre-booking (police-based) diversion, post-booking (court-based) diversion, alternative sentencing programs, and post-adjudication diversion (conditional release).Why do you and Beth Beglin continue to punish Daniel S. Jason with charges fit for murderers.  

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