On Tuesday, the Justice Department decided that in order to enhance disability rights in Georgia, patients who suffer from mental conditions should move out of questionable, psychiatric institutions and be integrated into the wider community.

This represents a victory for Americans with Disabilities Act that demanded the improvement measures for mentally disabled.

The case opened after a mysterious series of 100 death cases occurred over a period of 5 years in several psychiatric hospitals. An investigation confirmed that a high range of such incidents like suicides could have been prevented.

From next year onwards, development disabled citizens should directly move into in specialized “community settings” rather than state hospitals and the patients that are already in psychiatric institutions are planned to be moved by 2015. The realization costs the State millions of dollars.

C. Talley Wells, a member of the Atlanta Legal Aid Society, says: "This is a monumental step forward for people with mental illness. No longer will people be confined in a state hospital who could be living much fuller lives in the community”.

For now, only Georgia implemented the changes for its disabled citizens but is expected to serve as a role model for other states in the future.