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NY prison system opens unit for mentally ill (update)

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NY prison system opens unit for mentally ill (update) By MARY ESCH, Associated Press Writer December 15, 2009 ALBANY - The first inmates moved Tuesday into a new state prison unit for disruptive mentally ill prisoners that was created in response to a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group in 2002. The 100-bed Residential Mental Health Unit at Marcy Correctional Facility in Oneida County was designed by the state corrections and mental health agencies under the terms of a 2007 settlement with Disability Advocates. The nonprofit group sued to improve treatment of mentally ill prisoners and to stop putting inmates with serious mental illness and disciplinary issues in solitary confinement. Inmates in the new unit will receive more mental health care, therapeutic programming and exercise...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).