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Clinical professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine and an adjunct professor in the School of Law at New York University. Last year, he co-authored a report commissioned by New York City Board of Correction that found the use of prolonged punitive segregation of the mentally ill in the city’s jails violates the Mental Health Minimum Standards.
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