This week on Inland Journal…
Members of Spokane’s Safe and Healthy Task Force have been researching potential solutions to the community’s difficult public safety and public health issues. Today, we talk with two of its members, Dr. Melissa Mace and Chud Wendle, to hear about what they’re learning and what they might recommend.
“There’s a lot of individuals in the jail with severe challenges that shouldn’t be there, whether it’s mental health or substance abuse disorders, and we’re not giving a fair shot to them or the community. And so I think this puzzle is very complex and how the community comes together and crafts it. We have the right people at the table to do that, I believe.”…