The article is by The Associated Press. Civilian courts across the country have acknowledged the fact that, after a decade of fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, some veterans’ crimes can be traced back to battle-zone trauma — and that they shouldn’t go to jail or prison for them. The same consideration should be given by the military legal system when damaged warriors come before it, say some military law authorities, including Maj. Evan Seamone. Seamone, an Iraq War veteran serving as chief of military justice at Fort Benning, Ga., makes the case in an article in Military Law Review. As awareness of PTSD, Traumatic Brain Injury and other “invisible wounds” of war has increased in the past several years, civilian courts have responded by setting up diversion programs to get eligible veterans into treatment, rather than locking them up. Seamone says nearly 100 of these so-called “veterans courts” have already been established, and another 100 or so are in the works.  (Read Full Article Here)