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Today’s agreement will prevent the confinement of severely mentally ill patients to months of solitary confinement for trivial and illegal reasons,” said Roderick MacLeish Jr. of Clark Hunt Ahern & Embry, lead attorney for the patients. “However, we remain the only state in the country where these types of patients can be held indefinitely in a prison setting. It’s a moral disgrace that has to end.” A spokesman for Attorney General Martha Coakley, who defended the state in the lawsuit, declined to comment. For readers not in MA....Bridgewater is a hospital in name only. It is a prison run by the DOC.
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:57:06 +0000

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