Denver’s Court to Community finds success and financial savings halfway through the three-year program.
Kevin Simpson, The Denver Post

The defendants in Courtroom 151P couldn’t look more different: Men and women, old and young. Black, white and brown skin creased by wrinkles or adorned with tattoos.

But they share an invisible trait — mental illness — that often sends them careening smack into a city ordinance. Then they ricochet, again and again, into jail. Or detox. Or the emergency room.

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