Here we have a pitiful homeless 51-year-old woman who has been in and out of jails or prisons during the past 35 years. Let’s face it, unless she’s a public menace, additional confinement just doesn’t see called for.
CHICAGO WOMAN ORDERED TO SEEK HELP AFTER 396 ARRESTS
Associated Press
June 11, 2013
A Chicago woman who has been arrested 396 times in the past 35 years has been ordered to get mental health and substance abuse treatment in a deal with prosecutors.
Fifty-one-year-old Shermain Miles, who's been in the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln since December for violating parole, appeared in a Cook County court on Monday to plead guilty to charges she attacked a city alderman. She also pleaded guilty to trespassing and public drinking in separate cases.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports a judge sentenced her to time served in all three, because Miles agreed to undergo a mental health evaluation and get follow-up treatment.
Miles, who is homeless, has dozens of convictions for felonies and misdemeanors.
The paper says she thanked a judge for the opportunity to get help.
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Clearly this woman needs some sort of help.
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