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Deal reached on treatment of state’s mentally ill inmates

By Milton J. Valencia

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 16, 2012

Years after an alarming series of suicides by inmates in state prison segregation units, the state Department of Correction has reached a landmark agreement with advocate groups to better care for prisoners with severe mental illnesses. The agreement, which still needs a judge’s final approval, calls for the Department of Correction to maintain two new units at high-level security prisons as alternatives to disciplinary segregation for prisoners with mental illness, according to court records.

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