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psychiatric hospital
(redirected from Mental hospitals)

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Ronald Reagan closed most of the state's mental hospitals and a decade after the county closed about 20 mental health clinics due to budget problems.
These offenders, who are confined indefinitely in mental hospitals after serving their time, are considered sane enough to be convicted and punished but not sane enough to be released.
Since 1999, at least four murders have been committed in West Virginia with guns purchased from licensed dealers by people suffering from mental illness--three of them with conditions serious enough that they have been repeatedly committed to mental hospitals.
 
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