Battle Over Mentally Ill Inmates Ends
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By PHIL DAVIS  CLEARWATER, Fla. - The former head of Florida's Department of Children & Families was cleared of contempt charges Wednesday after the agency's new boss outlined a plan to get more than 200 mentally ill inmates out of jail and into treatment facilities.
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Authorities here say they're still having a horrendous time dealing with the mentally ill, more than two years after Hurricane Katrina washed away a massive mental hospital that has yet to be replaced.
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New York's most dangerous sex offenders will be locked up in psychiatric centers after their prison terms end if a court determines they continue to pose a threat to the public, Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Thursday.
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A Virginia Supreme Court commission on mental health laws yesterday proposed loosening the state's standard for when mentally ill people should be committed to hospitals, an issue that has come to the fore since the Virginia Tech shootings last spring.
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A SWAT team stormed the Bay County Jail on Monday to end an 11-hour hostage standoff, injuring one hostage and three inmates, authorities said. An undetermined number of other employees were freed.
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Two prisoners were killed and five wounded on Wednesday when a fight broke out among hundreds of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, the US military said.
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Charges have been dismissed against the former commander of a detention facility where an Iraqi prisoner was dragged by the neck and later died.
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A federal judge on Tuesday declined to allow a mentally ill man to vote in next week's election but agreed to hear his challenge later to a Missouri law that denies voting rights to some who are mentally ill.
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Since Andrea Yates first stood trial on charges of drowning three of her five children, the facts of the case haven&#039;t changed. What her defense teams hopes has changed is the public&#039;s view of mentally ill defendants.
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Mental health advocates and defense attorneys hope the public&#039;s mindset about mentally ill defendants has changed in the five years since Andrea Yates filled her bathtub with water and drowned her five children.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Two guards who were held hostage by four inmates at the Charlottesville-Albemarle Regional Jail were rescued, one of them by other inmates, as police negotiated for more than four hours to end the standoff...
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A woman convicted in the shooting death of her preacher husband was moved from a county jail to a mental health facility, officials said Thursday.
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Ministers have backed down on proposals allowing people suffering from mental illness who have not committed a crime to be locked up.
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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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At least 31 prisoners were killed and 23 wounded during clashes between warring gang members and other inmates in El Salvador&#39;s largest prison.
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Mental patients at the Oregon State Hospital, the setting for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," were exposed to threats ranging from infectious outbreaks to patient-on-patient assaults, according to a Justice Department report released Wednesday.
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A Virginia death row inmate received a stay of execution on Wednesday, the latest in a series of reprieves since the U.S. Supreme Court last month agreed to decide a challenge to the lethal injection method.