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Treatment units for mentally ill inmates on hold

MCI-Framingham was the scene of a suicide in 2000 committed by a woman who was not on a watch despite prior attempts.

The Patrick administration has shelved plans to build special treatment units for hundreds of seriously mentally ill inmates, two years after advocates for prisoners alleged in a federal lawsuit that the state’s practice of keeping such inmates in... Full Article at Boston Globe

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