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TexasTowelie

(116,301 posts) Thu Dec 27, 2018, 05:36 PM Dec 2018

Colorado freezes admission to psychiatric hospitals for patients who are not in the criminal justice

Colorado freezes admission to psychiatric hospitals for patients who are not in the criminal justice system

There are 94 beds at the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Fort Logan in Denver.

Starting Christmas Eve, the Colorado Department of Human Services announced patients discharged from them are being replaced with someone in the criminal justice system.

People who have not been charged with a crime will not be given a bed for the foreseeable future.

"So, essentially, in order to get mental inpatient mental health services you have to commit a crime," Disability Law Colorado director of legal services Alison Butler said.

Read more: https://gazette.com/news/colorado-freezes-admission-to-psychiatric-hospitals-for-patients-who-are/article_a9af562c-09da-11e9-9ae2-3f13f3906c7f.html

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Colorado freezes admission to psychiatric hospitals for patients who are not in the criminal justice (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP

This country has 2 extremes. Lock up everyone or lock up no one. Runningdawg Dec 2018 #1

Runningdawg

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1. This country has 2 extremes. Lock up everyone or lock up no one.

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Thu Dec 27, 2018, 06:05 PM

Dec 2018

In 1970 you could be committed if you were gay or admitted to doing LSD. In 2000 you needed to have made several serious attempts at killing yourself, or threats against someone else and now....here we are.

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