08 August 2017 | Al Jazeera English


US: Justice for American veterans with PTSD

 

We visited a veterans court in Tucson, Arizona, where veterans with PTSD are given an opportunity to turn their lives around: treatment instead of jail time.

"I believe they got into trouble in the first place because they were veterans, and had difficulties adjusting to civil society," Judge Pollard - a veteran himself who knows firsthand how it is to come back after fighting abroad - explains.