The Idaho Legislature has approved funding for a 26-bed facility after ProPublica found that state lawmakers and officials ignored repeated warnings about the practice of locking up mentally ill patients who hadn’t been convicted of a crime.
4 decades after Reagan shut down existing psychiatric facilities instead of reforming them to be more humane, and exacerbated the growth of the homeless population by turning the patients loose without care.
4 decades after Reagan shut down existing psychiatric facilities instead of reforming them to be more humane, and exacerbated the growth of the homeless population by turning the patients loose without care.