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ProPublica | SA Miller
The Idaho Legislature has approved funding for a 26-bed facility after ProPublica found that state lawmakers and officials ignored repeated warnings about the practice of locking up mentally ill patients who hadn’t been convicted of a crime. Above: Psychiatric patients have been detained, sometimes for months at a time, in cells like this one in the Idaho Maximum Security Institution near Boise.