A group of former Los Angeles County jail inmates said Monday that a recent legal settlement between the Sheriff's Department and federal authorities will perpetuate the cycle of people with untreated mental illness bouncing back and forth between jail and skid row.
The former inmates are seeking changes in the settlement that was reached this year as part of an effort to end abuse of inmates by sheriff's deputies and to improve chronically poor treatment of mentally ill inmates.
The settlement requires the county to create a "discharge plan" for inmates with serious mental illness when they are released from jail, including giving them prescriptions for medication and referrals to community mental health treatment providers.
[For more of this story, written by Abby Sewell and Cindy Chang, go to http://www.latimes.com/local/l...-20150928-story.html]
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