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(NewsNation) — The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday they person "reasonable cause" to judge the Commonwealth of Kentucky is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
The breach relates to the commonwealth "unnecessarily segregating" those with "serious intelligence illness" by placing them successful psychiatric hospitals alternatively of providing attraction wrong the community.
According to the release, the occurrences were wrong the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro area.
“People with superior intelligence illnesses successful Louisville are caught successful an unacceptable rhythm of repeated psychiatric hospitalizations due to the fact that they cannot entree community-based care,” Kristen Clarke, adjunct lawyer wide of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, said.
Clarke noted that Kentucky had wholly cooperated with the DOJ and was looking to instrumentality changes.
"Each year, thousands of radical are admitted to psychiatric hospitals successful Louisville, and much than a 1000 radical acquisition aggregate admissions to these restrictive and often traumatizing settings," the connection read.
"With the close community-based services, galore of these hospitalizations could beryllium prevented. Kentucky tin remedy this usurpation by expanding community-based services and implementing processes to guarantee that individuals tin person those services."
