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Settlement Provides for Improved Competency Procedures for Jailed Mentally Ill in Washington State

Washington State federal district court has approved a settlement in the Trueblood case, a class-action lawsuit filed in 2014 to reform Washington’s forensic mental health system. [See: PLN, Aug. 2017, p.22].

The complaint alleged that “individuals with mental health disabilities have languished in city and county jails ...

 

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