Fla. Must Treat Mentally Ill Inmates
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MIAMI - An appeals court ordered the state human services agency to immediately admit mentally ill inmates into state psychiatric treatment facilities, ruling that the department must follow the law despite its claims that it doesn't have the money.
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TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 24 -- The state clemency board soon may consider steps that would more easily and quickly restore civil rights to ex-felons, Florida's attorney general said Wednesday.
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Maximum-security confinement may be pushing already unstable criminals -- "the worst of the worst" -- toward mental breakdown. And that's not good for any of us
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For decades, Michigan has suffered attention deficit disorder on the issue of mental health. It&#39;s now getting overdue focus in Lansing.
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VICTORIA&#39;S health system is in crisis with revelations that mentally ill patients are being &quot;shackled&quot; to trolleys in public hospitals.
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Florida residents encounter challenges with everything from taking showers to caring for dislocated pets.
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After two months of public hearings by the state panel investigating the Virginia Tech massacre, one thing has emerged most clearly: The state's system of dealing with the mentally ill is in almost desperate need of repair.
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NEW YORK -- Susan Wezel had been committed to the city's hospital wards more than a dozen times in 10 years. Her psychosis was so deep and debilitating that she lost her career and her relationship with her son, as she refused to take her medication or follow treatment.
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Some mentally ill patients can be mean or bad just like anyone else, and this is not a problem for psychiatry to fix.
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Severely mentally ill people in Fairfax County whose families are trying to get them emergency help are being released without receiving treatment -- or even a hearing -- because there are not enough independent psychologists to examine them.
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CHICAGO -- Interested inmates at Newton Correctional Facility in Iowa receive teaching material that declares: "Criminal behavior is a manifestation of an alienation between the self and God. Acceptance of God and Biblical principles results in cure through the power of the Holy Spirit....
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A judge threatened to jail the head of the state Department of Children &amp; Families if the agency can't explain why it consistently has failed to get mentally ill jail inmates into psychiatric treatment.
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The nearly 640 inmates on California's already backlogged death row could get hearings to argue that they're mentally retarded and should be spared under new guidelines, a top state lawyer said.
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Government plans to allow the enforced treatment of potentially dangerous mental health patients are likely to be watered-down.
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People who sell drugs near schools or use children to aid them could get tougher  sentences under a new law.
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Too many people with mental health problems end up in prison when they need specialist care, a report says.
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Overcrowding in jails is creating a "disastrous situation" for the health of inmates, a prison doctor says.