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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: hmaly who wrote (138023)7/9/2001 10:30:59 PM
From: combjelly   of 1585199
 
"The truth is that the ACLU demanded and won a court case in the late 70s in which the federal judge said it was illegal for an institution to hold a mentally ill person against his wishes if he wasn't a danger to the community."

This happened in the '60s. The idea was to build half-way houses so that the institutionalized could transition to society. The houses were never (ok, rarely) built.
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