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MENTAL HEALTH

Patients Left in Urine and Feces, Restrained for Days—Ombudsman Report Reveals New Brunswick Psychiatric Horror

Almost 950 hours of surveillance footage and thousands of internal records reveal a regime of neglect, secrecy, and physical and sexual abuse in the Canadian province’s psychiatric hospitals.

MENTAL HEALTH

One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry

Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Tennessee Moms Outraged by Illegal Solitary Confinement of Kids

Behind the locked gates of Richard L. Bean juvenile prison in Knoxville are shackled kids, no privacy and Bean’s favorite sadism: children in solitary confinement, often for days at a time.