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Subway Attacks Renew Questions About Forced Mental Health Treatment

Joyce Brown, with attorney Norman Siegel, became the face of City Hall's 1980s push for forced institutionalization of mentally ill people.

A series of recent violent attacks in the New York City subways have refocused attention on the question of if — and when — involuntary removal and hospitalization should be used to address what city officials have called a crisis of homelessness and untreated mental illness. New York City has pushed these measures as a […]

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