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Friday
Apr062012

Official: Improvements in transporting mental-health patients

Vermont’s top mental health official is promising the state will improve its methods for transporting mental health patients when they have to move. The Associated Press reported this week that despite a seven-year-old state law which states that patients are to be moved in the least restrictive way necessary, about two-thirds are still being moved from place to place by county sheriffs in handcuffs and leg shackles.

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