Sheriff, chief judge weigh in on mental health

Brenda Trammell and Bill Massee are very familiar with mental illness and its effects on counties and the court system, as both deal with the disease on just about a daily basis. While Trammell as chief judge of the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit courts encounters mentally ill defendants on a more frequent basis than she would like, Massee – the longtime Baldwin County sheriff – does see it every day…