Each year, about 850 Canadians living with mental illness are deemed by a judge to be not criminally responsible for their illegal actions. The videos, part of Livingston’s “Forensic Mental Health Success Stories” project, are currently circulating through social media and are available online. A judge eventually found Umlah not criminally responsible for his actions due to a mental disorder — a legal finding typically referred to as NCR. “People need to be made aware that success is possible for people who have mental illness,” he says. Within the NCR system, the recidivism rate is about half that level — at about 10-20 per cent.

Source: thestar May 24, 2018 00:22 UTC