Culture of Cruelty
Beth Hundsdorfer and Molly Parker launch the "Culture of Cruelty" investigation into the state-run Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center. State-run facilities in Illinois are supposed to care for people with mental and developmental disabilities. However, patients have been subjected to abuse, neglect and staff misconduct for decades, despite calls for change.
At a remote mental health facility, a culture of cruelty persists despite decades of warnings
Over a year ago, the security chief at Choate Mental Health and Developmental Center in southern Illinois sent an email...
A disabled young patient was sent to get treatment. He was abused instead. And he wasn’t the last.
A 24-year-old with developmental disabilities was brutally beaten by his caretakers inside a state-run facility with a long history of...
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