The law does not apply to patients at such institutions as state mental centers or nursing homes.

Caught several times riding in stolen vehicles, he was sentenced to a state center for juvenile offenders last year.

The defendants will begin serving their sentences in a state juvenile center.

I recently followed Thompson, who was out to greet some constituents at the state environmental center.

At one time, some 4,500 people lived in the state center, though today, after 25 years of deinstitutionalization, that number is around 550.

One would have banned the use of state centers and employees in the performing of abortions.

Wood crafts in the state center on furniture, brightly painted sculptures and toys.

In November, at age 22, she was finally placed in a state center.

She said that many of the homes surrounding the state center were built on one-acre lots.

But in 1985, the woman who ran the home moved out and began soliciting state psychiatric centers for patients they planned to discharge.