People in a New York prison’s mental health unit are kept in their cells 24 hours a day, with the exception of an occasional “callout,” and denied therapeutic services, according to a lawsuit filed this week by Disability Rights New York and Prisoners’ Legal Services of New York against New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS), among others.
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