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Council Member Narcisse addresses mental health in jails
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Council Member Mercedes Narcisse opens the discussion by emphasizing her background as a nurse and the importance of triage. She focuses on the issue of mental illness in the jail system, specifically at Rikers Island.
- Narcisse asks about the percentage of incarcerated individuals with mental health issues.
- Jonathan Lippman responds that 57% of inmates have mental health concerns.
- This sets the stage for the subsequent discussion on alternatives to incarceration for those with mental illness.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:45:53
Good morning and thank you chair for putting us together here and thank you to all of you for being here.
0:46:02
One of the things that I want in as being a nurse for so many decades, I have learned to triage, right?
0:46:12
So what we're talking about right now in our Rikers in jail there, people are mental illness.
0:46:21
What's your percent what's the percentage that you know of people that have mental health?
Jonathan Lippman
0:46:25
Fifty seven percent.
Mercedes Narcisse
0:46:27
Fifty seven percent.
0:46:27
So for fifty seven percent, right?