'Mississippi chose to fight': Court overturns Justice Department efforts to overhaul state's mental health system

'Mississippi chose to fight': Court overturns Justice Department efforts to overhaul state's mental health system

A dozen years after the Department of Justice first sent Mississippi a letter detailing shortcomings in its mental health system, the state may have finally beaten the federal agency.  A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that a district judge erred in determining that the Mississippi mental health system violated the civil rights of adults with serious mental illness and in imposing a remedial order that required the state to expand a range of…