From the Dallas Morning News:

More than a year after Texas officials said they had resolved federal civil rights violations inside the Lubbock State School, a state inspection rated the school 20 out of 100, meaning that it failed to meet one or more major conditions of its certification.

An investigation this summer found critical deficiencies that jeopardized the health and safety of the institution’s residents, who have intellectual disabilities. Among the findings: staff could not prevent the residents from assaulting and sexually abusing one another, and were not always reporting injuries.

When the U.S. Justice Department first investigated the Lubbock State School in 2005, it found atrocious living conditions, civil-rights violations, and 17 deaths over an 18-month period.

A spokeswoman for the state agency that oversees the institution said the scores can be misleading. Dennis Borel, executive director of the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, said the findings demonstrate that “the culture of abuse and neglect is unfortunately continuing at Lubbock.”

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