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Mississippi Edition - 6/17/2022 - The State of Mental Healthcare Access in Mississippi

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It's been almost a year since a federal judge installed a monitor to keep an eye on Mississippi's embattled Department of Mental Health. That measure was the result of a DOJ lawsuit that accused Mississippi of providing such poor resources for mentally ill residents that it effectively discriminated against them.

We wanted to know: in the time since that monitor was put in place, has mental healthcare access actually improved?