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For New Yorkers With Mental Illness, a Broken Promise

Hunger, confusion, desperation and death. In 2014, thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illness living in troubled group homes won the chance to live independently. The government didn’t track what happened when they left. ProPublica and Frontline found cases with deadly consequences.

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