It is the weekend and you are so glad to be done with work for that week that you decide to go down to a local bar to meet with some friends. You don't decide to drive so you walk down to the subway and take the subway over to the bar. This was the scene for a woman named Kendra Webdale. She was just standing in line waiting for the train to arrive in the station when a man named Andrew Goldstein came up to her and pushed her in front of the train as it was coming into the station. This wasn't an act of hatred towards Kendra it was an act of mental unstableness on the part of Andrew. Through all of this in less than a year after her death New York State decided to make a law to help protect from this happening again. That law is called Kendra's Law.
Kendra's law can best be defined as a procedure for obtaining court orders for certain individuals with mental illness to receive and accept outpatient treatment (OMH 1). All that that means is that these people are set up with......
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