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Bonner County needs a mental health court

| January 19, 2016 6:00 AM

When a person has mental problems and is arrested in Bonner County for any reason, they are sentenced to jail and then shipped off to Boise.

Why doesn’t Bonner County have a program like Coeur d’Alene does, which handles mental health problems in a special court?

JIM CAVANAUGH

Sandpoint