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Jamaica: mentally ill incarcerated people denied release from prison
Applications by the Legal Aid Council for the Supreme Court to release six incarcerated people with mental disorders, who were unfit to plead, were refused because the Judge Leighton Pusey found that there were no appropriate accommodations for them.
Source: The Gleaner (09/10/2024)