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Mentally ill inmates sue Ohio prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Mentally ill inmates sue Ohio prisons By Dan Horn February 10, 2010 Mentally ill prisoners in Ohio are more likely to get into trouble and end up back in prison after they are released because state officials turn them loose without the follow-up care they need, a federal lawsuit claimed Wednesday. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, asked a judge to order the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction and the Ohio Department of Mental Health to provide the care necessary to help keep mentally ill offenders from returning to prison. Advocates for prisoners and the mentally ill said they are suing to help not only the released prisoners, but also the taxpayers who must pay tens of thousands of dollars a year to keep them locked up when they commit new crimes and are sent back to prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).