Many of these individuals end up in jails because there are no beds available in psychiatric hospitals. These people desperately need and deserve the protections of Title II and Section 504. People with schizophrenia, manic-depressive illness and other severe mental illnesses are committed to forensic hospitals when they are determined to be so ill that they may not be capable of understanding the nature of pending criminal charges or of understanding the difference between right and wrong. Hence, these individuals also are in desperate need of the protections of Title II and Section 504. Visit the website above for full info.
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