At a State-Run Mental Health Facility, a Culture of Cruelty Persists Despite Decades of Warnings – ProPublica

“What I am presently seeing occur at Choate and hearing occur at other facilities concerns me more than it has my entire career,” Barry Smoot, a decades-long IDHS employee, wrote to Illinois Department of Human Services Secretary Grace Hou May 26, 2021. At least 26 Choate employees have been arrested on felony charges over the past decade.

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