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Twelve years ago a federal judge ruled unconstitutional California’s practice of putting mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement. It is, he said, the equivalent of putting an “asthmatic in a room with no air.” Since then, inmates have won settlements or court orders in at least seven states to...
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Keep Mentally Ill out of Solitary Confinement Twelve years ago a federal judge called the practice of putting mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement the equivalent of putting an asthmatic in a room with no air. Since then, lawsuits against corrections departments in at least 10 states have obtained...
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Prisons are now housing the mentally ill at alarming rates. Have you had to deal with these issues? A loved one who is sick or have you been incarcerated with mentally ill inmates?