Lawyers working for Jackson Memorial Hospital have their hands full. The mammoth, publicly-funded facility has been sued over 160 times in the past five years. But few complaints are as disturbing as the one filed yesterday.
It came from Lisa Burton, former director of patient care in the mental health unit. Her claim: Staff frequently shackled mentally ill children without giving them psychiatric assessments. Workers did so because they were understaffed, she says. After she protested to mana
It wasn't a very happy story. Last week, New Times brought you a tale about the psychiatric unit at Jackson Memorial. There were in-hospital hangings, sexual assault, patient escapes, and a lot more.
Thing is, when you're a reporter, you can't get into a place like that. (Although we certainly tried.) So the story was lacking when it came to photos. These might help a little.
We'd seen the stacks of state complaints -- and long lists of investigators' findings -- about the nasty conditio
