Resource: Office of Protection and Advocacy v. State of Conneticut

By: The Bazelon Center

January 1, 2017

http://www.bazelon.org/opa-v-ct/

Office of Protection and Advocacy v. State of Connecticut alleges that more than 200 people with mental illnesses are “needlessly segregated and inappropriately warehoused” in three Connecticut nursing homes, and asks the court to order state agencies to develop suitable community-living alternatives for them.

http://www.bazelon.org/opa-v-ct/