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HUMAN RIGHTS
Connecticut’s Child Welfare System Fails Runaways, Feeds Traffickers, Report Finds
Foster children run away by the hundreds, but authorities in the state fail to search or screen for trafficking—turning a blind eye to exploitation and abuse.
MENTAL HEALTH
Black Youth Disproportionately Killed by Violent Restraint in Psychiatric Facilities
A new report finds over 30 percent of those who die under facedown holds are Black and most perish within five minutes of restraint.
MENTAL HEALTH
Foster Children on Psychotropic Drugs Are an Epidemic Requiring Urgent Reform
Abuses abound in foster care and elsewhere, as over 6 million kids are prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs. Over 400,000 of them are five years old or younger, and no one is tracking the side effects.
