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Mental Health
Arkansas lawmaker see 'crisis state' for criminally insane
June 28th, 2004
The state has put itself in a bind with a hasty attempt to cut costs of caring for Arkansas' criminally insane, a state legislator said. "It's absolutely at a crisis state because they don't have any place to go" when a contract expires at the end of the month, Representative Jay Bradford, D-White Hall, said June 8, 2004. Mental health officials had planned to save $2 million by moving many of the 39 patients currently in the Arkansas Partnership Program to a facility in Corning on June 30, the termination date for the state contract to treat murderers, rapists and others deemed too mentally ill to imprison. But Pat Dahlgren,...
Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2004-06-28)
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