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Democrats probe DOJ opinion that eases institutionalization of mentally ill
Democrats in the Senate and House are investigating the origins of a DOJ legal opinion that would make it easier for states to keep people with mental illness in institutions, rather than helping them to live at home.
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Senate and House Democrats launched a congressional inquiry on Wednesday into a new controversial Justice Department legal opinion that would make it easier for states to keep people with mental illness institutionalized, rather than paying for them to receive community-based care.
In a letter to Acting Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the lawmakers asked the Justice Department to rescind the June opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel, and asked who was involved in drafting it, in addition to its author, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora Pettit.
"For more than 50 years, federal civil rights laws have recognized that unnecessary segregation and institutionalization constitute discrimination," they wrote to Blanche.
"The consequences of weakening the integration mandate would be profound," they continued.
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