[USA] RAND study finds mental health courts have the potential to save taxpayers money / EurekAlert!, 1 March 2007
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/rc-rsf030107.php
"Special courts that sentence people with mental illness who are convicted of misdemeanors and low-level felonies to treatment instead of jail have the potential to save taxpayers money"

Justice, Treatment, and Cost: An Evaluation of the Fiscal Impact of Allegheny County Mental Health Court / RAND, 1 March
PDF - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR439.pdf
M. Susan Ridgely, John Engberg, Michael D. Greenberg, Susan Turner, Christine DeMartini, Jacob W. Dembosky
Summary report:
PDF - http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/2007/RAND_TR439.sum.pdf