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dixiegrrrrl

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7. County sheriff depts did that here as late as 1998.

Reply to HereSince1628 (Reply #3)

Tue Mar 5, 2013, 10:36 AM

Mar 2013

Any mentally ill who did not live in the county was driven to the nearest town in the next county.
I know this for a fact, I was working in Mental Health Dept. at the time in our county.
don't know if it was done in the 4 big cities in Alabama which had large Mental Health centers,
but it was done in the rural counties.

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