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People with mental illness in Charlotte may move to homes

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. —

People with mental illness in the Charlotte area may be able to move to better homes.

The U.S. Justice Department spent years challenging the way North Carolina institutionalizes patients.

Justice felt that the state's approach took too much of patients' freedom, and the two sides recently signed an agreement.

North Carolina now agrees to go patient by patient, seeing what it can do to put each person in a more appropriate setting.

The state plans to spend $10 million on it this year and is currently working out the remaining details.

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