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Lawmakers weigh mental health treatment in jails and homes

by Associated Press
| February 11, 2020 12:05 PM

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The Department of Social Services is asking South Dakota lawmakers to allow criminal defendants who have been found mentally unfit for trial to be treated in jails or their homes.

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