By Allison Sherry June 14, 2018 Denver, Colorado State officials have been sued for the fourth time in a decade for violating a court order that guarantees mentally ill people facing criminal charges receive treatment within about a month. Lawyers for Disability Law Colorado say that they have been...
May 11, 2018 Denver, Colorado Colorado Department of Human Services Bill (SB18-252) died on May 10, 2018. This Bill included avenues to free up jail cells and hospital beds for persons with mental illness by treating them in the community. But, the State of Colorado weighed down...
May 9, 2018 Colorado Department of Human Services bill (SB18-252) to obtain authorization from the legislature to warehouse people in jail for 4 months who have been found incompetent to proceed and solution to get out from under their federal settlement agreement -- FAILED last night...
Criminal defense attorney, Iris Eytan, was recently quoted in an article on cpr.org, by Allison Sherry, on the current situation regarding mental health inmates and the request by state officials asking for 150 days to treat mentally ill people while they sit in jail before...
Iris Eytan was written up in the 2018 edition of Best Lawyers Magazine for her work in representing criminals with mental illness who have been jailed and are suffering due to a lack of proper treatment for their illnesses. The Colorado prison system is currently...