North Carolina's prosecutors say they are increasingly concerned about the erosion of state services for people with mental illness who are accused of crimes. In a letter sent last month to Gov. Bev Perdue and her secretary of...
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Across North Carolina, mental patients are routinely languishing for days in emergency rooms ill-equipped to care for them, waiting for a bed to open at one of four state-run psychiatric hospitals. Often, they pass the time...