Thank you to Schweitzer Fellow, Caroline
June 15, 2025
We are so pleased with the help that our Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Caroline Crain, provided to Texas Jail Project during the 2025 TX legislative session. Below, you can find the…
Topics: Competency, Custody Death, Forensic Waitlist, Incompetent To Stand Trial, Medical, Mental Health, Pretrial Policy, Suicide, TCJS, Texas Legislature
We are so pleased with the help that our Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Caroline Crain, provided to Texas Jail Project during the 2025 TX legislative session. Below, you can find the one-pagers she created that tell the real stories of people with serious mental illness and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD) in the Texas county jail system – in pretrial detention – and outline concrete interventions that would make our communities safer and healthier for everyone.
Above, you have read numerous interventions that would make our communities safer and better serve people living with mental illness. Below, find more information about Institutions for Mental Diseases Exclusion Waivers.