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| Pa.'s mentally ill inmates trapped in legal purgatory |
| By pennlive.com- Daniel Simmons-Ritchie |
| Published: 08/11/2015 |
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On a March afternoon in the Cumberland County Prison in Carlisle, Mike Carey, the prison's deputy warden, unlocked a door to a section of the prison's segregation wing. Carey walked into a narrow hallway of steel doors, mesh-glass windows, and the unmistakable odor of disinfectant and feces. The source of the smell was a single cell containing the section's single inmate: a mentally ill man who had been arrested in January for an alleged parole violation. As Carey approached his cell, the inmate wrapped his head and shoulders in a green blanket and cowered over the cell's steel toilet. "He's hiding," Carey said somberly. The blanket shuddered. Read More. |
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