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The project center was a former county psychiatric ward which had been abandoned to that cause years earlier when Supreme Court rulings made it virtually impossible for the government-in the form of the police-to take the mentally ill off the streets and hold them for observation and public safety.
El centro se albergaba en un antiguo pabellón psiquiátrico del condado que fue abandonado cuando el Tribunal Supremo hizo que resultara prácticamente imposible para el gobierno —por medio de la policía— retirar de la calle a los enfermos mentales y retenerlos bajo vigilancia por motivos de seguridad ciudadana.
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