HELENA, MONT. — Montana officials seeking to free up bed space in the state hospital transfer mentally ill patients to prison, where they are warehoused, mistreated and denied proper mental-health care, a disability-rights advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit Monday.
Disability Rights Montana is accusing seven top officials with the state Department of Corrections and Department of Public Health and Human Services of cruel and unusual punishment and due process violations. It filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Butte....[
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