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Nevada hospital busing out their mentally ill to California

By Take Two Staff
Published Apr 16, 2013
Atascadero State Hospital, shown above in this 1999 photo, cares for more than 600 mentally ill patients.
A patient walking through the halls of a psychiatric hospital in California.
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Reed Saxon/AP
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Nevada hospital busing out their mentally ill to California

Over the past five years, a psychiatric hospital in Nevada has put more than 1,500 mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities across the country. About a third of those patients have wound up here in California, many with no one to take care of them once they arrive .