From Yahoo! News: By Ronnie Cohen SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – San Francisco’s city attorney said on Monday he has opened an investigation into recent newspaper reports that a Nevada mental hospital was illegally busing hundreds of newly discharged psychiatric patients to California and other states. In a letter to the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services, City Attorney Dennis Herrera cited a Sacramento Bee investigative series documenting what it described as rampant Original post on yahoo.com Comments on reddit.com
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