Barrows v. State

SHEPARD, Justice.

This is an action instituted on behalf of mentally ill patients, most of whom are confined at the State Hospital South in Blackfoot, Idaho. The crux of the complaint was: that the patients should be placed in less restrictive community-based treatment facilities; that if such facilities are not available, the State should be compelled to build such facilities; and that the patients are entitled to semi-private rooms for sleeping and to day rooms containing not more than eight persons. Partial summary judgment was granted to the State and the issues certified on appeal,…