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Friday, March 1, 2019

Sentenced to prison without committing a crime: lawsuit may end protested practice

After 30 years, a New Hampshire man’s case could change practice of transferring non-criminal psychiatric patients to prison

Douglas Butler was confused. He thought his son, Andrew Butler, had been transferred to another, more secure psychiatric hospital. But when he drove to the address of the secure psychiatric unit on the outskirts of New Hampshire’s capital of Concord, he couldn’t see anything that resembled a hospital.

Instead, he saw the coils of razor wire and imposing walls of the New Hampshire state prison for men.

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2TuiVqJ

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