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County faces multiple challenges to its institutionalization practices
Author(s) -
Enos Gary
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
mental health weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7583
pISSN - 1058-1103
DOI - 10.1002/mhw.32772
Subject(s) - lawsuit , institutionalisation , settlement (finance) , economic justice , criticism , political science , law , public administration , criminology , sociology , business , finance , payment
Already facing a federal lawsuit over its institutionalization practices for residents with serious mental illness, Alameda County, California, officials last month received sharp criticism from the U.S. Department of Justice along similar lines. The Justice Department's findings raise numerous possibilities, including that it could join the existing lawsuit or that an out‐of‐court settlement of the case could become more likely.