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Recent Trends, Challenges and Issues in Funding Public Mental Health Services in the US
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South Carolina mental health agency fights on
Charlotte Observer story on the state Department of Mental Health, which last year had $31 million cut from its budget. The State Budget and Control Board voted last week to cut all state spending by an additional 4.5 percent, but "mental health officials said they would need an additional $2 million in next year's budget to comply with a judge's order that they treat mentally ill defendants who are sitting in county jails despite court orders that they be hospitalized."  
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DDN | Inmates sue about jail’s care response (Ohio)
Dayton Daily News story on a lawsuit filed by inmates at the Montgomery County Jail "to stop what they say is overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, inattention to the inmates' medical needs and other abuses." The lawsuit claims, for example, that "one inmate was denied his mental health medication for more than seven days."  
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