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Collected Item: “California Defendants Entitled to Mental Health Care Languish in Overcrowded, Unhealthy Jails FacebookTwitterPinterestRedditShare”

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California Defendants Entitled to Mental Health Care Languish in Overcrowded, Unhealthy Jails FacebookTwitterPinterestRedditShare

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The writers’ son is a patient with mental health-related rights that have gone unfulfilled, along with thousands of others, in the downtown Los Angeles jail nicknamed the Two Towers.

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#lockedupwithcovid, #covid19, #losangeles, #abolishprisons, #slavelabor, #prisonlabor, #mentalhealth

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https://www.laprogressive.com/mental-health-care/

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Sharon Stewart and Paul Krehbiel

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2020
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