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| Montana State Prison sued over treatment of mentally ill |
| By digitaljournal.com- Karen Graham |
| Published: 04/08/2014 |
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Prisons in the United States have become the nation's newest mental health asylums. Not only does the U.S. have the highest incarceration rate of any developing nation, at least half of these inmates have mental health problems. With an inmate population nationwide exceeding 2.2 million people, the alleged lack of proper psychiatric care of those inmates with mental disorders has come under investigation in a number of prison systems across the country. The Montana State Prison was taken to federal court this week by Disability Rights Montana, a federally mandated civil rights protection and advocacy group. In the lawsuit, the organization alleges Montana State Prison and the Montana State Hospital are placing mentally ill prisoners in extreme forms of isolation, for months and sometimes years at a time. Read More. |
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