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Old May 22, 2006, 11:02 PM
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I saw a documentary several days ago called "Unbreakable Minds." They featured a service in it--I forget the name of it--that opens group homes in various locations, and they have to get permission from zoning boards or whatever to do this. Every time, they said, they have residents showing up at these meetings with a lot of people trying to stop them. They showed some of these people saying stuff like, "My children run up and down these streets. I don't want them coming into contact with these kinds of people," and saying they wouldn't feel safe. These homes are to help the mentally ill learn how to live a basically normal life. I don't think they take violent persons. These are persons who are able to learn to live on their own.
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