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The Warehousing of New Hampshire’s Mentally Ill
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2007
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2007, page 20
The Warehousing of New Hampshire's Mentally Ill
Filed under:
Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness).
Location:
New Hampshire.
by David M. Reutter
Despite over 30 years of litigation, mentally ill prisoners at the New Hampshire State Prison (NHSP) are still not receiving care to treat their conditions. In fact, with NHSP adopting the trend of locking prisoners down in Special Housing ...
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