AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine state lawmakers have rejected a proposal that would send violent or difficult-to-manage mental health patients to a special unit at the Maine State Prison in Warren.
The Portland Press Herald reports the state’s Republican-controlled Senate voted to block the legislation, L.D. 1577, on Wednesday.
But the Senate passed a plan that would send mental health patients to a state-owned hospital. Those patients could be sent to another facility that provides hospital-level care, if there are no beds available at the state-owned hospital.
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