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The Indiana House and Senate are advancing each other’s mental health treatment priority bills this session. And chamber leaders say providing funding for both will be part of the final budget bill.

The Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department must turn over records related to a person it detained for federal authorities. The county argued the records are exempt from state disclosure laws because the inmate was held on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

It costs at least $240 million a year to keep people locked up in local jails in Indiana, with some counties spending around a quarter of their yearly…

Indiana lawmakers are pushing local criminal justice leaders to examine more closely why people are incarcerated.Legislation, House Bill 1068, approved by…