Grant given to allow Hill County jail inmates to receive therapy

Hill County, along with 15 others, has been chosen to receive a grant that will allow Hill County Detention Center inmates to seek out mental health resources while incarcerated.

Hill County will receive $70,350 from the state to continue its mental health program at the detention center.

Michelle Hill, the rural director of services with the Center for Mental Health, said this is the second year the county has received the grant.

“It basically gives them funding to contract mental health services in the community so that we can provide medication management for inmates as well as ju...