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"Ohio Mentally Ill Inmates"

This post was written by Chuck Kallendorf: "In a class action lawsuit filed earlier this year by indigent Ohio residents with psychiatric disabilities soon to, or recently having been, released from prison in Ohio, the Department of Corrections, last Monday filed a motion to dismiss the case.

"For inmates with psychiatric disabilities," the inmates' complaint had professed, "an abrupt and unprepared reentry into a community or entry into some form of post-release supervision represents an enormous barrier to a successful transition. When inmates with psychiatric disabilities are released into communities without required accommodations, they are often unable to meet requirements that may condition their release or make use of the referrals, counseling, and services available in the communities they inhabit, if those services are available. In many communities into which inmates with psychiatric disorders are released, needed services are minimal and inadequate or non-existent. As a result, they experience predictable and preventable exacerbations of their symptoms and they also face arrest for even non-criminal behavior that may constitute a technical violation of the conditions of their release..."

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Source: Hamilton County Law Library Blog, 14 April 2010. Reproduced with permission.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).