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Elderly, mentally ill and children trapped in broken court system

Thousands of Ohio’s most vulnerable residents are trapped in a system that was created to protect them but instead allows unscrupulous guardians to rob them of their freedom, dignity and […]
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The cost of not caring: Inside a mental health system drowning from neglect

States have been reducing hospital beds for decades, because of insurance pressures as well as a desire to provide more care outside institutions, USA TODAY reports. Tight budgets during the […]
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Obscure law is freeing county mental patients

A Seattle Times investigation has found that people like Gregory Benson are now released on technicalities from King County hospitals — without treatment or monitoring — on average every other […]
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Virginia paroling violent, mentally ill patients

But what happened in Apartment 433 was more than just another murder. It was a window into today's mental health care: a system as dysfunctional as the clients it serves. […]
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Inmate suicides bring attention to South Carolina’s treatment of mentally ill prisoners

A class-action lawsuit could soon change the way an estimated 3,500 inmates with severe mental illnesses are treated in South Carolina's prison system. The case exposed numerous stories of mentally […]
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Felons, fugitives bought guns amid backlog

More than 300 people banned from owning guns were able to buy them last year because the state police were overwhelmed with background check requests, police said Wednesday. People with […]
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VA pays out $200 million for nearly 1,000 veterans’ wrongful deaths

In the decade after 9/11, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs paid $200 million to nearly 1,000 families in wrongful death cases, according to VA data obtained by The Center […]
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Shootings involving combat veterans raise questions of police training

Gene Vela was supposed to graduate in May with a master’s degree in global policy studies. It would have been a milestone for Vela, who was among the first U.S. […]
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Balancing privacy and gun rights against public and patient safety

Before he turned 21, Blaec Lammers had seen the inside of mental health facilities at least seven times. One of those visits stemmed from following an employee for two hours […]
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Suicide rates increasing in region of New York

Craig Russell Wishnick is one of 238 residents of Dutchess and Ulster counties to die by suicide in the five years ending in 2011, 73 more than in the five […]
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