Problems persist at Texas institutions for individuals with disabilities more than a year after workers at one facility were found forcing residents to fight each other, a newspaper investigation indicates.
In the last two years there were at least 250 cases of abuse and mistreatment at Texas facilities, most of which where documented and dismissed with little fanfare by state officials, according to public records obtained by The Texas Tribune and the Houston Chronicle.
The instances included forced fights between residents and other forms of physical abuse inflicted by workers in response to disciplinary problems among residents.
State lawmakers say they were unaware of many of the cases uncovered, even though they spent much time during a recent legislative session trying to correct problems in how the state cares for those with developmental disabilities. To read more click here.
I clicked to read more and watched the video. It makes me sick to see people treated like animals or worse. and it makes me even sicker nothing is being done about this abuse. people who care about people in texas need to get up and do something about this!
Why are these individuals and the supervisors of these bastards not in jail, in Illinois battery to anyone w/a mental disability can be considered a HATE crime, what these parasites did is on the same level as what the Nazis did during WWII and we had the Nuremburg Trail to be honest hanging would be too good for these insects. I pray these parasites have been terminated, in jail, and the families of these poor souls have an escort as they take the checks written by there insurance carrier to the bank.