Zellnor Myrie: “I've sponsored bills, but also working with our mental…”

“We are aiming to treat mental health issues with incarceration and just saying, let's put these people out of sight and out of mind instead of actually drilling down and dealing with it. So we have been the proponent. I've sponsored bills, but also working with our mental health chairs on how we can bring those services to folks who are incarcerated. But I'll step back for a second and say that this is also outside of that scope. Look, I've been a state senator for six years. I have pretty good health insurance.” (32:48–32:57)

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