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Only one security guard occupies the campus of abandoned buildings on Capers Avenue near downtown Jackson, where community-based mental-health patients used to be served.

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Left to Fend: The State’s Mental Health Failure

In 2013, MSH decided, with help from the Mississippi Department of Mental Health, to close their community-based services and prioritize their acute inpatient care at Whitfield.

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