The Nation - News from Jan. 20, 1988
The first homeless person forcibly hospitalized in the New York City’s campaign to get the mentally ill off the streets has been released, although officials said they believed she should be in a psychiatric ward. Doctors at Bellevue Hospital said they decided to discharge the woman, Joyce Brown, 40, because a judge ruled that she could not be treated with drugs against her will. Brown was to enter a Manhattan home that provides meals and social services.
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