To: President Donald Trump

STOP CRIMINALIZING MENTAL ILLNESS IN NEW ORLEANS

"People with mental illness are not brought to the hospital anymore in Orleans Parish, they bring them straight to jail, we see it every day, we have no place to put them but Tent City and the general population" (Orleans Parish Prison representative April 2015) .

Why is this important?

Governor Bobbi Jindal continues to close mental health facilities, thus, fueling the mental health crisis since Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Criminalizing people with mental illness is dehumanizing and traumatizing. Please sign the petition to "Stop the Criminalization of Mental Illness in New Orleans"