(Reuters) - California will move mentally ill prisoners from solitary confinement to special isolation units as part of a series of new policies outlined by corrections officials Friday to improve treatment for inmates with psychiatric illnesses.
California To Shift Mentally Ill Inmates Out Of Solitary Confinement
Reuters: U.S., Reuters: Nation
Fri, 08/29/2014 - 8:17pm
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