Federal inquiry stirs new debate about Texas institutions
March 28th, 2008From the Dallas Morning News:
The U.S. Justice Department is conducting the second federal investigation into a Texas facility for people with disabilities within two years’ time.
Word of the inquiry has given advocates for the mentally disabled new ground to call for the closure of Texas’ 13 institutions. And it raises serious questions about how well the state reacted to a scathing 2006 Justice Department report on the Lubbock State School, those advocates and some state officials say.
… Officials with Texas’ Department of Aging and Disability Services say they’ve gone to great lengths to improve conditions at all their institutions since the Lubbock review, which revealed shoddy health care, mistreatment, and more than 17 deaths in an 18-month period.
… A Dallas Morning News investigation last year found hundreds of cases of confirmed abuse and horrific conditions at some of the worst facilities.
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