U.S. district court: mental health ADA-Americans with Disabilities Act.

• Position: Pretrial Detention - Americans with Disabilities Act - Brief Article

Bolden v. Stroger, 306 F.Supp.2d 792 (N.D.Ill. 2004). Pretrial detainees brought an action challenging a county's policy of barring individuals with mental illness from various prerelease programs, and its policy of discharging mentally ill individuals without providing them with medication and referrals necessary to manage their illnesses. The district court dismissed the action, finding that a court monitoring consent decree that had created pre-release programs at the jail was the...