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Nevada buses hundreds of mentally-ill patients across country

Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has transported more than 1,500 patients to other cities via Greyhound bus, sending at least one person to every state in the continental United States, according to a Bee review of bus receipts kept by Nevada’s mental health division.

Place:

Third Place

Year:

  • 2013

Category:

  • Investigative (large)

Affiliation:

The Sacramento Bee

Reporter:

Phillip Reese and Cynthia Hubert

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