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| Deal gives mentally ill more treatment |
| By Gannett News Service |
| Published: 04/18/2007 |
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ALBANY, NY - As advocacy groups announced a lawsuit settlement Tuesday that will grant mentally ill inmates in solitary confinement more treatment, others called on the state to end the practice of isolating prisoners with psychiatric disabilities. The settlement, which has to be approved by the court, requires that severely mentally ill prisoners in solitary confinement, known as the "box," receive at least two hours a day in out-of-cell treatment. The state will set up residential programs for 405 prisoners with serious mental illness, which are in addition to 310 beds the state made available after litigation began in 2002. Inmates in a 100-bed residential unit, part of the 405 total, will get four hours of out-of-cell programming, in addition to an hour of recreation. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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