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Federal judge: Texas state hospital waitlist unconstitutional

Federal judge: Texas state hospital waitlist unconstitutional
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After a decade-long court battle a federal district court in Texas has ruled the state’s system of making mentally incompetent people wait in jail for months – or years in some cases – for mental health treatment at a state hospital violates their constitutional rights.

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