LLH Newsmakers: Jim Pavle on Why We Jail the Mentally Ill

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In this segment of Life Love & Health: Special Edition Newsmakers, Executive Producer Christopher Springmann considers so-called quality of life crimes. If you live in any American urban area plagued by seemingly homeless individuals who are behaving a bit out of the ordinary, you may get a sense of what that “crime” might be. A San Francisco supervisor put it this way, “Welcome to the world’s largest open air mental institution.” Well, that’s a rather harsh indictment of the day-to-day reality many of us endure. And our guest shares those concerns. He is Jim Pavle, Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Washington, DC and coauthor of a startling report entitled “More Mentally Ill Persons are in Jails and Prisons than Hospitals.”

More about James Pavle
Jim Pavle is Executive Director of the Treatment Advocacy Center, a national nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating barriers to the timely and effective treatment of severe mental illnesses. In the past 30 years, Jim has held multiple positions in the fields of national energy policy advocacy and law firm marketing management. At the American Gas Association, Jim was instrumental in the formation of the Natural Gas Council, a forum for exploring common objectives by senior executives representing the different segments of the industry. He helped spearhead an Olympic Games sponsorship in 1996 to showcase natural gas vehicles. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University. Jim has had family experience with severe mental illness. He is a native of Dearborn, Michigan.

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About Christopher Springmann

Christopher Springmann is Executive Producer and Senior Correspondent of Life, Love and Health, the award-winning health and wellness program that reaches millions daily on multiple news, talk and sports channels including Sirius XM, CNN, FOX, NPR affiliates, American Forces Network, and HealthRadio.net.

Life, Love and Health is also Mr. Springmann’s latest endeavor in a journey of “creative convergence” that started as a photographer for Time, Fortune, National Geographic and Smithsonian magazines. He moved into writing leadership profiles for Chief Executive and California CEO magazines, which in turn provided the inspiration for creating Life, Love and Health: to fulfill the unmet need of telling America’s health story. Mr. Springmann meets this need in entertaining and emotionally engaging ways, with the authentic voices of real people, including a diverse group of doctors and nurses, patients and their families, plus researchers and innovators in the health-and-wellness field. He relies on the credibility and persuasiveness of people’s passionate storytelling to get the point across. People identify with the experiences of others and are encouraged to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.

Christopher is also the Host of Life, Love and Health on WomensRadio. Life, Love and Health seeks to ultimately make a difference in people’s lives by encouraging individuals to take positive, attainable actions to improve their personal and family health.