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A photo from the Supreme Court opinion in Brown v. Plata shows "dry cages/holding cells for people wait- ing for mental health crisis bed."

According to the Court's opinion:

Prisoners in California with serious mental illness do not receive minimal, adequate care. Because of a shortage of treatment beds, suicidal inmates may be held for prolonged periods in telephone-booth sized cages without toilets. A psychiatric expert reported observing an inmate who had been held in such a cage for nearly 24 hours, standing in a pool of his own urine, unresponsive and nearly catatonic. Prison officials explainedthey had “‘no place to put him.’”

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