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Idaho keeps some psychiatric patients in prison, ignoring decades of warning about the practice

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Idaho keeps some psychiatric patients in prison, ignoring decades of warnings about the practice

A temporary program for \

Idaho keeps some psychiatric patients in prison, ignoring decades of warnings about the practice

A temporary program for “dangerously mentally ill” patients has continued for five decades, despite calls from critics to provide better care. Soon, Idaho will be the only state still using

Idaho Ignores Warnings and Puts Psych Patients in Prison

For five decades, Idaho has been putting mental health patients into prisons, despite receiving 14 notices that it needs a secure mental health unit that is not a prison.

Idaho keeps some psychiatric patients in prison, even though they haven't been convicted of crimes