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Massachusetts’ Mental Health Treatment Policies Prove Deadly for Public, Prisoners
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2008
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2008, page 1
by David M. Reutter
Filed under:
Crime,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Murder by Parolees,
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Massachusetts.
As America’s prisons continue their transformation into mental health institutions, little thought is given to mentally ill prisoners who languish within the harsh confines of prison environments with little if any treatment. That all changes, at least temporarily, when a mentally ill prisoner who has been ...
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