Ill treatment – Patients—and a watchdog group’s lawsuit—say inmates in Montana’s mental health facilities are subject to inhumane treatment

Patients–and a watchdog group’s lawsuit–say inmates in Montana’s mental health facilities are subject to inhumane treatment

Bragg is one of four patients represented by Disability Rights Montana http://www.disabilityrightsmt.org/ — a federally funded nonprofit charged with watchdogging state institutions–in a lawsuit that seeks to ban many current restrictions on patient freedoms at the Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs and the forensic facility at Galen.

By Kate Whittle

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