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Perri v. Coughlin, No. 90-CV-1160 (N.D.N.Y.) (1999 WL 395374) (June 11, 1999) (Judge Neal P. McCurn)

Last week the Department of Justice released its first comprehensive study on the rapidly growing number of emotionally disturbed people in America's prisons and jails. That report is available on the Internet at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/mhtip.pdf and it indicates that America's prisons now hold more than 283,000 mentally disturbed inmates - or ...

 

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