COMMITTALS FOR INTOXICATION.; REPLY OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITIES AND Share full article Oct. 27, 1860 The New York Times Archives ...

The Paper Committals Act has quietly altered how serious criminal charges progress through our courts — and for many accused individuals, victims, lawyers, and police, the change is not merely ...

A dedicated DNA prosecution team is being quietly set up to untangle the backlog that’s paralysed the state’s justice system.

The push to implement paper committals in the legal system, effectively abolishing Preliminary Inquiry (PI) hearings, has been stymied by the apparent lack of procedural guidelines in the legislation.

MASON CITY — Between Sept. 1, 2009, and Sept. 1, 2010, the Cerro Gordo County Sheriff’s Department has conducted 222 mental committals and 95 substance abuse-related committals.

Committals are essential to our justice system The public must understand the important role that committal proceedings play in our justice system, argues the chair of the Criminal Bar Association of ...

Real-time access to a virtual behavioral health professional can aid de-escalation efforts, avoid involuntary committals, and save law enforcement resources. View Image Gallery ...

We all should be concerned about the rise in Baker Act committals of children and teens that is occurring in Florida. Concerned but not surprised. The Baker Act is a tool used by law enforcement ...

The number of committals to Irish prisons has fallen for the first time in six years as sustained decreases in the Republic’s recorded crime rates appear to be filtering through to the jails ...

Maine is seeing a surge in involuntary committals – cases where people are held for mental health issues against their will – that is changing how police do their jobs. The number of those ...

There were 16,155 prison committals last year, the vast majority of which were men. The cost of incarceration also increased to almost 69,000 euro (£49,924) per inmate.