WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says Virginia’s advocate for the mentally ill can sue to force state officials to provide records relating to deaths and injuries at state mental health facilities. The justices, in a 6-2 ruling Tuesday, reinstated the ...

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HAGERSTOWN — A Maryland task force on prison violence is urging a systematic approach to reducing gang activity and improving mental health care among inmates. The panel sent its report to Gov. Martin O’Malley Monday after 2½ years of work. ...

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SPRING CITY, Pa.  — Since the last residents left more than 20 years ago, Pennhurst State Hospital has been vacant, its sprawling complex of buildings crumbling, overcome by brush in the suburban Philadelphia countryside. The old asylum may not be ...

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