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
